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...economy recovers, efforts by Government to restrain gasoline use are bound to hurt the carmakers. There is a strong possibility that Detroit will not soon again match the average annual 3.8% increase in new-car sales that it posted over the past decade. Says Chrysler's Lynn Townsend: "I think to some extent we will see a shrinking of desire for some of the things we always wanted-those two cars per family, two color-television sets and lots of other things. We certainly as a people cannot continue piling luxury upon luxury. There...
...same time Crane began to call the key business friendships needed to exercise the necessary influence that his title of mayor could not provide. Frank Townsend, Chamber of Commerce president in the fifties--a man about whom Dyer says, "When I was selling Chamber of Commerce memberships to the city I was really selling Townsend,"--full into the Crane fold. He and the rest of the Harvard Square businessmen--at that time native Cambrigians, residences in Cambridge being perhaps the most important prerequisite to community power--played ball with Crane. And through Atkinson, Crane reciprocated, cutting taxes when every other...
...Townsend Hoopes, a lawyer who filed an amicus curiae brief for the Association of American Publishers in behalf of Williams and Wilkins, said yesterday: "What has been happening is that hundreds of copies of articles are made and distributed. It amounts to a reprinting and republishing operation in violation of copyright laws...
...button campaign. His version: BAC, for "Buy a Car." In a juxtaposition of imperatives that verged on contradiction, some Chrysler dealers were distributing bumper stickers proclaiming: WHIP INFLATION NOW. BUY A CAR. Top auto industry executives were pitching in with efforts of their own. Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend declared "a new car is the best buy you can get in America today." Outgoing General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg, in a signed newspaper advertisement, once again made clear that what was good for GM was good for the country. "When you buy a new car," he said, "you help America...
...view of Chrysler's 120-day inventory of unsold cars, means layoffs and bleak Christmases for 64,200 workers. White-collar workers also face the ax; fully 20,000 will be temporarily dropped at Chrysler. All company officers, from the vice-presidential level up to and including Chairman Townsend, will take December pay cuts. An angry Douglas Fraser, chief of the U.A.W.'s Chrysler Department, blamed the company for "irresponsible" overproduction, noting that the company in September and October built cars at a rate of 136% of sales. "That's really sloppy management," he said...