Word: volvo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wallenbergs are now likely to become more powerful than ever. Skandinaviska, the other party to the bank deal, has interests in 28 major firms, which together employ some 100,000 Swedes. And one of those firms, Volvo, is the only industrial concern among Sweden's five largest that the Wallenbergs do not control...
Shortly after midnight this morning, a red 1963 Volvo pulled up at South Station to submit seven bags of mail to the tender mercies of the U. S. Postal Service. By the beginning of next week, 6936 applicants will know whether they have been admitted to Harvard, and the University's $300,000 annual admissions operation will turn its attention to the class...
...build a $2.2 billion automotive plant in the Tatar Republic between Moscow and the Urals; they say that it may become the world's largest truck factory (the biggest so far was opened by Ford Motor last August in Louisville). The Russians previously had approached Sweden's Volvo and West Germany's Daimler-Benz for assistance. It is believed that they asked Ford last week to help build at least part of the Tatar plant-possibly an assembly line...
...incurred the injury while trying to push his car in order to jump start it early Sunday morning on Cape Cod. "My mother won the car in a contest," Cosentino said. "It's a Volvo and is supposed to last 11 years, but it only lasted 11 days." The car is still on Cape...
...looked at each other, our heads two feet apart but on opposite sides of the glass, for no more than five or six seconds. Then, his body still motionless, he rotated his head to look at the packages in the back seat, to the hood of our gleaming red Volvo, to the blaring stereo cartridge/AM-FM radio system on the dashboard, up and down my reclining body, and, just for a split second, back at my face. Then he stepped away from the window to pull the gas nozzle out of the tank, leaving a thick streak on the area...