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The speed-up king: in 1940, a Danish machinist helped jump-start America's transformation from carmaker to weapons giant.(president of General Motors, William S. Knudsen)(Essay)
World War II; 1/1/2010; 4244 words; ...of the General Motors building when...1940, General Motors' Buick Motor Car division...By the war's end five years...he felt, for a country that had helped...1932. William S. Knudsen was...production at the Ford Motor Company. In 1922...to the General Motors ...

China Autos
AP Images; 12/28/2009; 238 words; ...factory of Chinese auto maker JAC Motors in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province, Monday, Dec...China has overtaken the U.S. as the world's biggest market for automobiles, the first time any other country has bought more vehicles than...

Birth of Brazil's new middle class helps US carmakers in their fight to survive
The Irish Times; 12/28/2009; 776 words; General Motors and Ford are heading for record sales in world's fifth-largest car market THE WOES of Detroit's carmakers have become emblematic...the year as the world's fifth-largest car market...ever investment in the country, which it says will boost...

Race to go green leaves scars on China landscape ; Mining of elements used in energy efficiency kills fish and destroys crops
International Herald Tribune; 12/28/2009; 1429 words; ...damaging mines in the country, in an industry dominated...worried about China's near monopoly, which...concerned about the U.S. military's dependence on Chinese...make magnets in electric motors lighter by 90 percent...partly to force other countries to buy manufactured products...

Dark shade of green: Damage at China's rare-earth mines ; Extraction of elements used in new technologies kills fish and harms crops
International Herald Tribune; 12/28/2009; 1422 words; ...damaging mines in the country, in an industry dominated...worried about China's near monopoly, which...concerned about the U.S. military's dependence on Chinese...make magnets in electric motors lighter by 90 percent...partly to force other countries to buy manufactured products...