Word: plymouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thrusting out of the Midwest into four of the five Great Lakes, Michigan is a self-contained empire. Imperially big, rich and varied, it is the land where Hiawatha played, where the French voyageurs sailed even before the Plymouth colony was founded, where conservative Germans settled on the smiling farmlands of the fertile south, and the Scandinavian Paul Bunyans came to cut the timber and mine the ore of the rugged north. It was here that Henry Ford, messiah of the machine, swung the U.S. mass-production revolution on his assembly lines and broke the bonds of the workingman...
CHRYSLER FIRED another top executive, Jack W. Minor, 39, director of marketing for Plymouth, DeSoto and Valiant, in conflict-of-interest scandal. Investigation showed that Minor made about $20,000 in commissions on Chrysler Corporation business given to advertising firms in which he had an interest...
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...buffs scored two victories against Chrysler. While passing the Plymouth plant in Detroit, U.P.I. Staff Photographer Joe Marquette caught the company with its guards down, spotted a group of 1961 Plymouth sedans behind a chain-link fence. He jumped from his car, snapped several pictures inside the gate before plant protection men gave chase. In Queens, N.Y., a sharp-eyed auto buff spotted both a new Plymouth Fury and a 1961 compact Valiant on a dealer's roof, stopped long enough to photograph them. Last month a Lansing, Mich, photographer made the biggest score of the season when...
...investigations have already circled around another high Chrysler executive. Jack Minor, marketing director of the Plymouth-De Soto-Valiant division, admitted that he was a principal owner and director until early this year of a Detroit company called Taxi-Ads, into which Chrysler has paid several hundred thousand dollars for advertising during the last eight years. Detroit insiders think that Minor may be the next to go. If he does, he probably will not be the last. From Washington came word that the Securities and Exchange Commission is studying the Newburg case to determine whether anyone violated SEC proxy regulations...