Word: plymouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been enjoying the industry's biggest auto-sales increase, and had earnings to match. At a record $84.5 million, its second-quarter earnings were nearly double those of the 1967 quarter. Relatively untroubled by the strikes that hit its bigger rivals, and propelled by hot sales of Plymouth Fury and Dodge Coronet, the company is on the way to its biggest year...
Today is the last day to sign up for the Summer School Tour of Cape Cod and Vicinity, including guided tour of of historic Plymouth, Mayflower II, Plimouth Plantation plus Falmouth, swimming at Hyannis Port, dinner at the Yachtsman, concluding with the performance of J. Offenbach's La Perichole by the Oberelin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players on Saturday. Tickets and details at 4 Matthews Hall. $13 per person...
...Francis' -famous landing at Plymouth last year made grappling with the elements a major British sport, followed intensely by the public and pushed hard by the press. The Observer, quickest to capitalize on "Chichysteria," announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer and attracted 35 oddly assorted entries. The winner of that tough grind was a young Cornish schoolteacher, Geoffrey Williams, who slipped into Newport, R.I., a fortnight ago after 26 days, 20 hours, and 32 minutes en route; others are still at sea. The competing Sunday Times sent four record-seeking Britons floundering by dogsled across mushy...
...Chrysler is the leading gainer, with sales up 19% over lackluster 1967. Among its bestselling intermediates, the Plymouth Satellite enjoyed a 47% increase in sales over last year. Plymouth Fury, the company's high-volume car, has sales of 184,600 so far in 1968, compared with...
...automakers, particularly when it comes to imposing economies of mass production on their Canadian operations. Where Chrysler previously had to turn out relatively small quantities of six different models at its Windsor plant, for example, it currently uses that facility to manufacture just two models, the Dodge Polara and Plymouth Fury-both of them in volume. As a result, the plant is fully meshed with the rest of Chrysler's North American operations. The lines discontinued in Windsor are now made entirely in the U.S., but are sold both on the Canadian and American markets. A Canadian-make Polara...