Word: toyota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noodle making to home building. A partial list: Sony is building a $1,000,000 color-TV plant in San Diego, and Nisshin Food Products Co. has put up a noodle factory in Gardena, Calif. Matsushita Electric is about to begin producing color-TV sets in Puerto Rico, and Toyota Motor is considering building an auto assembly plant there. Last month Mitsubishi Estate formed a joint venture with Morgan Stanley & Co. to build new communities in the U.S. The first will probably be a 1,000-home, $30 million development near Williamsburg, Va. Several states have sent delegations to Tokyo...
...bedrock car nuts, and there are tens of thousands of them in L.A., are the car customizers, the people who are forever rebuilding cars. The Nossecks are typical. Donald Nosseck, some extra cash on hand from his chain of dress shops and dissatisfied with his Toyota 2000GT, took the car to Chief Kar Kustomizer George Barris, out in North Hollywood, and had Barris totally rebuild the little sports car into something more like an old Jaguar XK.140. After that, he couldn't stop. Nosseck next took his 1970 Firebird 400 to Barris, had him plunge through the roof with...
Flashing uncharacteristic smiles, he toured a Toyota plant, called on Emperor Hirohito (with Mrs. Gromyko in tow) and magnanimously agreed to the release of 14 Japanese fishermen whom the Soviets had accused of poaching in Russia's territorial waters...
Pressing the Point. Lest anyone think he had softened, however, Connally lost few opportunities to drive home the U.S. position. At a press conference, a plaintive question about the U.S. surcharge prompted him to remark: "You can buy a Toyota in California for $2,000. You can buy an American-made Pinto there for approximately $2,000, but that same Pinto here in Japan would cost you $4,000. That is slightly more than...
...attracting attention. "I'm searching for a valid identity and I suggest you do the same," she tells Rabbit in her best TV talk-show jargon. Her search has led her to the bed and board of Charlie Stavros, a car salesman at her father's Toyota agency...