Word: opels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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General Motors is in less of a hurry to produce its rumored compact compact, the Corvair II, will hedge its hesitation by importing the new Opel Kadett from Germany. Chrysler, not yet convinced that the market for new small cars is big enough, will stick firmly with its Simca imports. The big question: Will Cardinal cut as deeply into Falcon sales as Falcon has into standard Ford sales...
Three days later, the entire 6.500-man U.S. garrison in Berlin was put on alert, tanks and armored personnel carriers were rushed to the Friedrichstrasse's "Checkpoint Charlie" as two U.S. Army officers in civilian clothes, driving a grey Opel sedan, were escorted by three Jeeps filled with armed infantrymen through seven blocks of Communist territory. British Centurion tanks moved up to the Brandenburg Gate in their sector of the city...
...decade, and U.S. agencies are leading the field. A subsidiary of McCann-Erickson, called H. K. McCann GmbH, is now the largest advertising agency in Germany, with billings of $25 million; it has made "4711" cologne Germany's biggest TV advertiser, and pushes 30 other products ranging from Opel cars to Henkel soaps. In second place, with billings approaching $20 million, is J. Walter Thompson, which has helped to make the Ford Taurus Germany's hottest-selling medium-priced car, and has had to move to roomier offices seven times since it opened in West Germany nine years...
...fast-rising subsidiary, Ford Motor Co. Ltd., has become the No. 2 car seller, after British Motor Corp. (which makes Morris, Austin, M.G.). G.M.'s Vauxhall Motors Ltd. is No. 3. From their British bases, both sell widely within the Commonwealth. ¶ In West Germany, G.M.'s Opel and Ford's Taunus are outpaced only by Volkswagen, which, however, is far out front. The two subsidiaries now have the entire six-nation European Common Market open to them...
...Kenya Legislative Council banned the sale of KMQ. But despite the threat of stiff fines, Akumu kept brewing, and despite the scores of stiffs found, Nairobi kept drinking. Akumu got to be a wealthy man. He acquired five wives, a flashy Opel sedan, three rambling houses...