Word: volkswagens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, as the dollar's value shrivels, the cost of foreign imports into the U.S. swells, contributing to American inflation. A fully equipped Volkswagen Rabbit, for instance, can now carry a price tag of nearly $4,000-as much as a medium-sized Ford Granada...
...posted restrictions on textile imports. Last week the British automobile industry, with protectionist action clearly in mind, formally asked the European Economic Community to investigate charges that Japanese cars are being "dumped" in Britain. In the U.S., the United Automobile Workers union is trying to document a suspicion that Volkswagen Rabbits are being dumped in America...
Inflation has raised the prices of most American cars above those of competing foreign models, and no U.S. automaker can match the gas-mileage claims of some of the imports: 38 m.p.g. for the Volkswagen Rabbit, 39 m.p.g. for the Japanese Honda Civic. Those cars are in the forefront of the import surge, along with Fiat, Datsun, Toyota and British Leyland's Marina. Says Honda's U.S. sales manager, Cliff Schmillen: "There seems to have been a change in people's thinking. It has sunk in that energy shortages and high gasoline prices will be with them...
...landing the $2 million grant from the Alfred Krupp Foundation that established a chair and a graduate fellowship in social sciences: he was instrumental in the negotiating of a grant for $930,000 from the German government to study Germany and Europe; and, he got a $124,000 Volkswagen grant for European studies. But Goldman sees more future in cultivating American corporations' dealings with Europe. The largest European foundations have an average income that comes nowhere near that of the big United States foundations, Goldman says. "Volkswagen is nothing like the Ford, Johnson, Kellogg or Rockefeller Foundations," he says...
Tooling along 1-65 in Alabama, headed for Montgomery, the driver of the green '68 Volkswagen checked the road in front of him, then glanced at the papers in his lap and occasionally leaned over to scribble on a yellow legal pad. After 2½ hours on the road, Lawyer Morris Dees, 37, somehow arrived safely at his office. By then he had finished going over the transcript of Johnny Harris' trial...