BRIEFCASE IMPERIAL OBTAINS BUDDY L. TOY LINE.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services Imperial Toy Corp. has bought the Buddy L. and Power Drivers line of toys and games from Alpha International, Inc., of Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, city (1990 pop. 108,751), seat of Linn co., E central Iowa, on the Cedar River; inc. as a city 1856. The second largest city in Iowa, it is named for the surging rapids in the river. , Iowa. Details of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition strengthens Imperial's market share in the boys-toys category, balancing its existing holdings, including the Petit Miss line, in the girls-toys category. The Buddy L. line includes cars, trucks and airplanes. Power Drivers are ride-on toys and table games. Los Angeles-based Imperial Toy Corp. has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Memphis, Toronto, Tijuana and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . Short-term T-bill rates vary Monday WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with the rate on three-month bills unchanged while the rate on six-month bills rose to the highest level in three weeks. The Treasury Department auctioned $15 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.630 percent and $14 billion in six-month bills at the same discount rate of 1.630 percent. The three-month rate was unchanged from last week while the six-month rate was up from 1.590 percent last week and was the highest since six- month bills brought 1.690 percent July 29. Tread woes force major tire recall WASHINGTON - Continental Tire
A Continental tire is an upright, external, mounted spare tire behind an automobile's trunk compartment. This term also describes a completely fake design that is stamped into the trunk lid. North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. announced Monday that it is recalling more than half a million tires installed on Ford Motor Co.'s sport utility vehicles This page lists sports utility vehicles currently in production (as of April 2007), as well as past models. The list includes crossover SUVs, Mini SUVs, Compact SUVs and other similar vehicles. after some of the tires lost their tread. The recalled Continental tires were installed as original equipment on 106,701 two-wheel-drive Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs from the 2000 and 2001 model years. About 60,000 additional tires were sold as replacements on light trucks for a total of 596,610. Air bag problem brings GM recall DETROIT - General Motors Corp. recalled nearly 720,000 cars and trucks Monday that have potential air bag problems. The first recall includes 570,000 model year 2000 pickups and sport utility vehicles with a problem that could prevent air bags from working in certain frontal collisions. The second recall includes 150,000 2002 and 2003 Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC GMC See: Guaranteed Mortgage Certificate , Oldsmobile and Pontiac cars and trucks built between May and July 2002. |
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