Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Autos. For the first time since 1957 Chrysler Corp. managed to make a third-quarter profit due to the sales of the compact Valiant and the Dodge Dart. While only $1.4 million, it compared with a loss of $34.2 million last year. Nine-month earnings were also ahead, $2.84 per share this year v. $2.73 last year. On the other hand, earnings of General Motors, hit by high tooling costs for its new compact cars, dropped 34% in the third quarter from 47^ per share to 30^ on a 5% sales increase. Nine-months earnings also ran behind a year...
...impressive start, with daily new-car sales up 7.5% over last year (to 19,539 cars) in the first ten days of October, for the best ten-day rate since June. American Motors reported "the best reaction in our history" to its 1961 cars; Plymouth and Valiant daily sales were reported 30% ahead of last year in the first ten days, the best since their record 1953; Dodge delivered nearly twice as many Darts as it did last year; Ford sold 12,361 Falcons in the ten days, expects to have a backlog of 12,000 to 15.000 orders...
...announcing no price increases for their standard cars. Studebaker-Packard said it would cut prices an average of $39 on its 1961 cars. Chrysler Corp. held the line on its Plymouths and Dodges and all but two series of the Imperial. It reduced the tags on its Valiant compacts by $19 on the economy series and $34 on the luxury models; Chevrolet trimmed $35 off its Corvair line. Pontiac introduced its new four-cylinder Tempest compact, which has a transaxle-a combination of transmission and axle in the rear-that almost completely eliminates the front-seat transmission hump...
CHRYSLER FIRED another top executive, Jack W. Minor, 39, director of marketing for Plymouth, DeSoto and Valiant, in conflict-of-interest scandal. Investigation showed that Minor made about $20,000 in commissions on Chrysler Corporation business given to advertising firms in which he had an interest...
...with a troubled conscience and trying to lead investigators away from evidence that tends to indict young Harold Rutland (played by George Grizzard). Soon after the beginning of Act III, however, Poole tears into a coroner who is evidently hiding such findings, and thereafter poses as a modern day Valiant-for-Truth...