Word: darting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MERCURY will be reduced to Ford size, sell at Ford prices. New Mercury will be built on a Ford body shell but have its own styling. Ford follows lead of Dodge Dart, which is built on a Plymouth chassis, is now Chrysler's best-selling...
...offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call to wander, where a stern ramrod reverend and a kindly rolypoly one share the same pulpit, where Anthony Perkins, as a bedeviled wanderer's son, is afeared to marry his sweetheart, where people dart out of portable outhouses, or go in for bucolic frisks and nocturnal rituals, or pay such compliments as: "Cow has more but you are nicer...
...Chrysler's Valiant is selling well, but comparisons have been thrown out of kilter by the surprising success of the company's middle-size Dart, which now accounts for 85% of the Dodge division's sales. For Chrysler Corp., this means an expansion of its market (its sales are up 48% over last year, when a glass strike crippled production), but it also means headaches for Plymouth. Many Plymouth customers are switching to Darts, buying them so fast that last month the Dart actually outsold the Plymouth, onetime mainstay of the company...
Chrysler's Dodge Division reported that the first two months of the 1960-model year showed a 78% sales gain over 1958, in good part owing to the warm reception given to Dodge's smaller Dart. Studebaker wound up 1959 with output of Larks and Hawks more than 170% ahead of 1958. and no signs that the company is suffering from newer compacts. Particularly pleased with its compact-car entry was Ford. Partly because the Ford Division turned out 101,000 compact Falcons to 79,603 compact Corvairs produced by Chevrolet Ford in 1959 beat Chevy...