Lee Iacocca speaks at a Chrysler briefing on earnings in February 1991. "The company is saddened by the news of Lee Iacocca's passing. "I don't know an auto executive that I've ever met who has a feel for the American consumer the way he does," late United Auto Workers Union President Douglas Fraser had said. Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca was born in the Pennsylvania steel town of Allentown on Oct. 24, 1924. He paid the loans back seven years early, and in 1983, a cartoon showed frantic executives of the troubled U.S. airline industry shouting into a phone, "Get me Lee Iacocca!"

Source: Otago Daily Times July 03, 2019 02:48 UTC