Detroit Focuses On Small Fuel Efficient Cars For 1981
American automakers prepare for fall model introductions with new compact and subcompact lines aimed at recapturing market share from imports. Chrysler and Ford unveil twin K and subcompact lines, Imperial luxury return, Ford Escort and Lynx lead front wheel drive push, GM introduces J cars, imports hold 25 percent share. Toyota pledges a high economy model next year.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
Auto Assembly
Europe
Chevrolet
Pontiac
Toyota
Square D manager promoted to industrial relations director
William A. Roberts, formerly personnel manager at the Square D Cedar Rapids plant, is elevated to director of industrial relations for Square D’s physical distribution group with headquarters at Florence Kentucky. He will oversee personnel matters at the central warehouse and six regional warehouses, after joining Square D in 1972 and serving in Lexington and Cedar Rapids.
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William A. Roberts
Square D
Cedar Rapids
Central
Florence
Lexington, Ky
Jack Parmenter
First Trust and Savings Bank
Third St. SE
Farmers State Bank
Marion
Marion Bank
John Wade
Iowa City
Iowa
Time Insurance Co
Life and Health
Milwaukee
Equitable of
Iowa City Association of Life Underwriters
Dean A. Buresh
Louis Buresh
Fairfax
L’arcy-Mac-Manus & Masius Inc
Minneapolis- St. Paul
Martin Marietta Corp
J. Peter Dunston
Martin
Butler Paper Co
Shaver Road
Locust Hill
55Th Avenue
11Th Street
Butler Paper Engineers
Cliff Abild Construction Co
Butler Paper
Great Northern Nekoosa Corp
Transportation and energy awards span national scope
The Chicago and North Western lines will move Seatrain freight in five days from Oakland to the East Coast in trains of 40 to 60 flatcars, with Southern Pacific Union Pacific and Conrail also involved. Agri-Grain Power of Iowa won a 99,700 DOE grant for a 50 million gallon year anhydrous ethanol plant feasibility study in Des Moines, potentially operating by early 1982. Thomas Connolly Motors in Vinton earned the Chrysler Dealer Award for Excellence for 1980. Ten Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance agents from Cedar Rapids were cited, including Garon Blunt Cedar Rapids, top 100 and Marathon Club members George Brunscheen and John Leland. James M Dunn of Alexandria VA named to Equitable Life National Leader Corps and President's Cabinet, guided by his brother Greg of Des Moines obtaining President's Cabinet honors.
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Cedar Rapids
Investors Diversified Services
Joseph Evanovich Jr
Washington
Paul D. Speer
Des Moines
West Des Moines
First Iowa
Hawkeye National Life Insurance Co
Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood
Minneapolis
Chicago and North Western Transportation Co
Seatrain Lines Inc
Seatrain
Oakland
Calif
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Conrail
Agri-Grain Power Inc
Iowa
Department of Energy
Thomas S. Redford
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Milwaukee
Garon I. Blunt
Decorah
Marathon Club
George H. Brunscheen
John M. Leland
Cedar
Patents cover chopper control and muscle monitor gains
US Navy stability systems for helicopters improve low speed hover and cruise handling. Patents 4,213,584 to Tefft Perez Barnum from Sikorsky in Stratford detail pitch and roll control aids and wind gust dampening aiding the CH-53E Super Stallion. A muscle fatigue monitor from Boston's Children’s Hospital Medical Center, assigned to Harvard, accompanies related work.
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New York Times
Washington
United Technologies Corp
Navy
Franklin A. Tefft
Ricardo L. Perez
Ronald E. Barnum
Sikorsky Aircraft Division
United Technologies
Stratford
Conn
Sikorsky
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Boston
Foster B. Stulen
Carlo DeLuca
Stulen
Medical Center
North Korean Forces Prepared for Attack on Defense Lines Center
A 30 year old report indicates North Korean troops planned an assault on the strategic center of American defense lines, signaling high tension in the regional standoff. The account notes heightened military readiness and concerns about potential incursions near key U.S. positions.
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Patent and Trademark Office
Frank P. Wipff
Garland
Texas
RCA Corp
Joseph C. Tellier
Drexel Hill
Army
Army Development and Readiness Command
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Reginald Stuart
Chrysler Corp
Ford Motor Co
Imperial
Buick
Oldsmobile
American Motors Corp
Business News
Donald B. Wendling
Martin Marietta
New Business
Midwest Gallery and Framing
16Th Ave
Brian Wolf
Don Karr Jr
Craig Crawford
Wolf
E and S Electrical Contractors Inc
33Rd Ave
North Towne Lane
North Towne
Wayne Engle
Archer Daniels Midland
Britt Tech Corp
Britt
Waterloo
Carleton D. Beh and Co
Piper Jaffray Inc
Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood
Butler Paper Building
Thomas Connolly
Tomahawk Trail SE
Tom Connolly Motors
Vinton
Harvard University
Meiller Research, Inc
College Station
Arthur F. Isbell
Apollo
Landis
Dick Landis
Travel
DialPlan, Inc
Dial Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
Dial
Third Ave. S.E
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