Category Archives: Profiles

Profiles, The legend of “Toyoda”
January 21, 2019

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Sakichi Toyoda didn’t begin with cars, but he did have an interest in machines in motion. It’s how the Toyota Production System began. It’s how an inventor with a sharp eye and even sharper mind built an empire. Today it’s evident on every production line at Toyota and at other companies that use the system. And it’s how Toyota Motor Co. is the giant that it is, even if the wheel of progress didn’t begin as a wheel at all. This family empire was born of thread, not tread as Toyoda was more interested in perfecting the loom, which was a machine used to weave textiles.

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Profiles, Chris Economaki
January 14, 2019

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Whether conducting on-air interviews with his microphone thrust into the face of a name-brand driver, or reporting the latest happenings within the pages of his National Speed Sport News, Economaki, who died in 2012, was known for providing the straight goods. His TV persona was that of a favorite uncle who told stories and spun yarns that kept you captivated as a kid.

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Profiles, Alan Mulally
August 20, 2018

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Alan Mulally had a very good question for his team on the first day of work at Ford. “Why in the world did we get rid of the Taurus?” he asked his managers gathered in Dearborn, Mich., that day. You could have heard a pen drop. Good question. It didn’t take Mulally long to make an impression at Ford. He might have been a guy with a long and distinguished background in the aerospace industry, but the question was not rocket science. Or jet planes, for that matter.

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Profiles, Walter P. Chrysler
August 13, 2018

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

The two-story home with the white siding and matching picket fence in sleepy Ellis, Kan., still stands, a monument to a man who’s better known by his name than his face. Tours are still given. For a small fee you can see the barn where the 18-year-old boy, first hired as a sweeper at the Kansas Pacific Railroad, made his own steam locomotive, and where the 22-year-old man left to make a fortune, one that was worth US $37 billion to German automaker Mercedes-Benz in 1998.

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Profiles, Jules Felix Philippe Albert de Dion
July 30, 2018

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
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Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

De Dion’s company struck gold in 1899 with the creation of a high-speed single-cylinder engine that would be licensed to 150 different carmakers and motorcycle manufacturers and find its way into de Dion’s own cars. By 1900, de Dion-Bouton was the world’s largest carmaker with an annual production of 400 vehicles and 3,200 engines.

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Profiles, Louis Renault
July 16, 2018

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
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Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Born in February of 1877 to a wealthy family of Paris merchants, Renault was the last of five children but the first one interested in all things mechanical. He was intuitive and practical. It was obvious he was different. Renault failed his school entrance exam but by the age of 20 he had converted his De Dion-Bouton tricycle into a small, four-wheeled vehicle.

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Profiles, W. Edwards Deming
June 25, 2018

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

In the late 1930s, Deming, a professor of statistics at New York University, developed the so-called “statistical process control,” a philosophy that would revolutionize car production using statistics as a tool to achieve better quality control. Essentially, his idea was to record the number of product defects, analyze why they happened, institute changes and then record how much quality improved. The essence was refining the process until it was done right.

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Profiles, Flaminio Bertoni
April 2, 2018

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
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Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

One of the 20th century’s most gifted automobile designers, Flaminio Bertoni was responsible for creating the bodywork of classic and stylistically diverse vehicles as elegant as the industry has ever seen. A designer primarily for the French automaker Citroen, Bertoni left a remarkable stamp, one that was fresh, vibrant and beautiful. His vehicles drew adoring crowds. He was admired, respected and copied and never duplicated. Not that it was easy getting there.

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Profiles, Cale Yarborough
March 19, 2018

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Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Born March 27, 1939, Yarborough used to say it was in his blood. But it was even better than that. His four wins at NASCAR’s famed Daytona 500 track in Daytona Beach, Fla., are backed up by his 83 overall wins and his 70 starts from the pole position. For 40 years his career was a colorful one, on and off the track.
Yarborough was a daredevil.

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Profiles, Phil Hill
March 12, 2018

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Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

More than five decades ago he was the first American to win the open-wheel F1 World Drivers Championship. For 17 years his record was unchallenged and today is only shared with one other American . . . named Mario Andretti. But Hill is still the only American-born F1 champion. It wasn’t easy. There was plenty of tragedy. But Hill stood out as one of racing’s best. What made him unique? What made him special?