Word: volkswagen
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...catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 victims at the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps. Stangl had been living under his own name, and was working at a local Volkswagen plant when he was arrested. Eleven years later, Stangl's assistant, Gustav Franz Wagner, accused of involvement in the killing of more than 250,000 at Treblinka and Sobibor, was discovered following a police raid on a party of former Nazis celebrating Hitler's birthday. The Brazilian Supreme Court refused...
...barrage of shots continued, each one followed to the net by a crowd of Huskies impersonating college students trying to stuff as many people as possible into a phone booth or a Volkswagen or, in this case, a hockey goal...
Bricklin is pointing his latest venture at the same bargain-minded crowd that snapped up the Volkswagen Beetle in the 1960s. At 11 ft. 51½ in. in length, the Yugo is 3½ in. shorter than the Japanese-built Chevrolet Sprint, currently the smallest new car available in the U.S., and will cost $1,161 less. Likely customers: students and families who might otherwise buy a used...
...Industry leaders are intent on holding down labor costs to keep their cars competitive with the imports. Says GM Chairman Roger Smith: "Back in the '40s and '50s, the concerns were GM vs. Ford and vs. Chrysler. What happens here now affects GM vs. Toyota, vs. Volkswagen, and vs. everyone else." Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell puts it differently but the message is the same: "It's a global game now. At the end of the day we all have to be competitive. If anyone gets out of line, you have to pay the piper...
...Volkswagen's Beetle became history's bestselling automobile in 1972 when its sales reached 15,007,340 and passed the mark set by Henry Ford's pioneering Model T. Small wonder. The bug was backed by what a panel of judges assembled by Advertising Age magazine last week called the best American ad campaign since World War II. Created by Doyle Dane Bernbach, VW's ads ran from...