Word: trucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would fight to the death against Communism for the values upon which the principles of democracy are based, but I swear, if we go to war over how many men can possibly be in a convoy truck [Nov. 15], I will not even go to a bomb shelter...
Another bandit pulled up in a panel truck. The messengers were quickly herded into the truck and handcuffed inside. One "cop" drove off in the black car. Two men pulled away with their panel truck of prisoners. The last "cop" got into the station wagon, turned on the key and started the engine...
Guided Democracy. Barring accidents or acts of God, the rest is foreordained. Next week Diaz Ordaz will be formally nominated at the party convention; he will then "campaign" for six months, showing himself from the back of an open truck in every important town. In elections next July, against two or three hapless opposition candidates, he will win the presidency with some 80% of the popular vote. On Dec. 1, 1964, he will take office from President López Mateos...
...large numbers, producing everything from auto tires and heavy steel to photo paper, vermouth and sewing machines. Since 1948, Italian companies have poured $1 billion into Argentine industry, and current investment runs to $1,000,000 a month. Fiat alone has put $140 million into its automotive and truck-tractor plants in Córdoba; the Techint industrial complex outside Buenos Aires represents another $75 million in Italian capital. In 'the export market, Olivetti Argentina is now selling typewriters and calculating machines to Peru and Turkey, Gilera motorcycles from Argentina are buzzing around the U.S., and Fiat electrical motors...
...hard to straighten out a company, but to make it grow-that's another question," says President William Edwin Grace, 55, of Detroit's Fruehauf Corp. Five years ago, when Grace was called in to straighten out the nation's largest truck-trailer maker, Fruehauf was loaded with a $250 million debt and a big fleet of unsold trailers, and was heading toward red ink. Grace overhauled Fruehauf's loose corporate structure, set up a rigid system of divisions and committees copied from General Motors, and "gave people authority as well as responsibility to get their...