And Toyota's (TM) miserable U.S. performance led the Japanese company to project its first worldwide operating loss since the end of World War II, and to the likely ouster of its chief executive.

Cronkite was chief United Press correspondent at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and then from 1946 to 1948 was the agency's chief correspondent in Moscow.

After the war, he became briefly chief economics editorial writer for the Times before he joined the National Coal Board, a large organisation where he spent most of the rest of his working life.