Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Volkswagen: gasoline and electric power (20 m.p.g.); 69.3 in. wide; 77 in. high; wheelbase 94.5 in.; a variation of the VW Microbus model. Five passengers; retractable step, sliding door...
Whether Pippo works in a Luxembourg steel mill, digs coal in Belgian mines or mans a Volkswagen assembly line in West Germany, he may well receive identical letters from Vittorio, Gino, Maria-Teresa and all his other party friends back home. Last week local Communist Party offices were passing out "Dear Pippo" form letters to home-town comrades to send to their migrant-worker friends in other European countries-a switch on the 1948 campaign, when Italian Americans wrote to relatives in the old country urging them not to vote Communist...
More and more German companies are trying to maintain their sales by building plants in foreign countries. BASF, which already produces chemicals in the U.S., is planning to expand its American facilities. Last month Volkswagen decided that the only way to compete effectively in the American market was to manufacture autos there. In all, German direct investment abroad last year totaled about $2.1 billion, up from $1.7 billion the year before. But the movement of industry-and jobs -out of Germany and into other countries is already stirring misgivings among powerful German labor unions. Though Germany's jobless rate...
...subtitle of The Whole Earth Catalog was "access to tools," and The Quarterly provides information about many strange and interesting implements. Need a solar-energized food dehydrator? How about a Type 122 Volkswagen industrial engine? You will find them opposite each other on pages 98 and 99 in the Spring Quarterly...
...owners of 15 million Citizens Band radio sets, and some of the millions more who have become familiar with CB language from records and TV shows, the message was loud and clear: a nontrucker from New York City, whose CB nickname is Red Vine, was driving his Volkswagen through Washington when he passed the White House, home of fellow CB-Owner Betty Ford, whose radionym is First Mama (TIME, May 3). There were no cops around, so he slowed down and tried to reach her on his set, using her FCC-issued call number, but got no response. The attractive...