The car was originally built from aluminium, but became the first mass-production vehicle with a fibreglass body in the 1950s.

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Thalidomide works, in part, by blocking the production of tumour necrosis factor-alpha, a biochemical which promotes inflammation in the body.

ECONOMIST: Thalidomide

The situation with oil workers taken hostage in Algeria puts a "dark cloud" over the country's production, an international energy body has said.

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So Honda determined to harmonise its production systems the positioning of welding points in body shops, for instance in order to make such a switch faster.

ECONOMIST: Car manufacturing