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Word: toeholds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Chrysler Corp. got a toehold by making a "general agreement" with Mitsubishi, Japan's second largest industrial corporation, to set up a joint company in which Chrysler would have a 35% share. The government in Tokyo will have to approve the deal, and is not likely to be quick about it. The two firms hope to collaborate on some research, then move on to marketing each other's cars in Japan and the U.S. Later, they might join in assembling Chrysler cars in Japan. Ford also started negotiating in earnest last week with Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Hard Bargaining with Japan | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...They remove the climax vegetation--the tall aspen and spruce--and open up the land for other types of vegetation. Black bears fatten themselves for the winter on blueberries growing in old burns, and other animals also depend on the low shrubs and grasses that can only gain a toehold after a burn...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...Mediterranee, which already has 17,000 American members, the American Express tie-in has provided a computerized reservation system and a ready-made U.S. sales organization. Last month, establishing a more tangible toehold in the Americas, the club opened a 140-bed, $1,000,000 ski lodge in Bear Valley, high in California's Sierra Nevada. It also added a 250-bed, $4,000,000 hotel on France's Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Mediterranee on the Move | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...political assimilation of European immigrants in New Haven. Although Dahl was not primarily concerned with Negroes, Stokes associates the Negroes' evolution with that of other minority groups. "If the ethnic pulled himself up a bit with the help of the rope," wrote Dahl, "he could often gain a toehold in the system; the higher he climbed, the higher he could reach for another pull upward. He was not greatly interested in leveling the mountain itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: The Real Black Power | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

United's board called the offer inadequate and urged stockholders to turn it down. If they do not, Teledyne, which has made all 40 of its previous acquisitions in electronics-related businesses, will have the toehold it wants in the consumer-service field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Teledyne's Takeoff | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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