Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought aboard to breathe vigor into a venerable but increasingly sleepy-eyed old Midwest industrial firm. Instead, the five-year tenure of Archie R. McCardell, 55, first as president and then as chairman and chief executive officer of International Harvester Corp. (1981 sales: $7 billion), has taken the ailing truck and farm-equipment manufacturer to the edge of financial ruin. Last week, after two years of heavy losses and forecasts of worse to come, the aggressive and hard-charging McCardell abruptly vacated his $480,000-a-year post. Though bankers and colleagues expressed surprise at the announcement, the real wonder...
Both Ford and General Motors are experimenting with just-in-time production. At GM's truck assembly plant in West Carrollton, Ohio, Findlay Industries Inc., a local manufacturer of truck seats, makes daily deliveries of seats that are bolted into truck cabs within four hours of their arrival at the plant. The seats used to sit around in a plant warehouse for as long as two weeks waiting to be drawn from inventory and used. At GM's Linden, N.J., and Tarrytown, N.Y., assembly plants, similarly tight inventory management procedures are expected to save the company upwards...
Many polo watchers become addicted. Last Christmas his girlfriend gave Mario Mendoza, 37, a prosperous Cuban-born lawyer, a helmet, mallet and lessons at a polo clinic. "Now," he marvels, "I have seven horses and a groom. I bought a horse trailer and a one-ton truck and five acres of land where I'm building a stable with 24 stalls. Next season I plan to have my own team...
...VERMIN HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH . So proclaims the spray-painted graffito on a truck sprawled by a desolate stretch of road in this low-budget Australian thriller. At first horrified glance, moviegoers may be convinced that the vermin have also inherited the movie industry. In The Road Warrior, cars crash, somersault, explode, get squashed under the wheels of semis. Skinless bug-eyed corpses hurtle toward the screen. A mangy dog sups at a coyote carcass. A deadly boomerang shears off fingertips, creases a man's skull. That's entertainment? As a series of isolated incidents, no; our nerve...
...postnuclear future. The world has been totaled; civilization is a white-line junkyard; the only amenity is staying alive. Where there was high culture, now there is only car culture. In one of the film's first images, an automobile breaks angrily through one side of the truck that has been holding it; this is the caesarean birth of the new mutant marauders. They race across the scarred landscape on stripped-down motorcycles, killing for fuel, raping for fun, going to hell at 80 m.p.h. In a jerry-built fortress, the more admirable survivors have assembled an oil refinery...