Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nightmarish though it was, the experience of Nick Philippides and How ard Weiner took on its real significance as part of a bigger pattern-a wave of terrorism on the trains. Within 96 hours of the Kings Highway station outbreak, these incidents also took place...
...driving a big car head on into a stationary small car, and vice versa. Photographs taken at the moment of collision were enough to alarm any small-car owner - and did when they were reproduced in news papers across the country. Dauphines, Volkswagens and Saabs were devastated, while the bigger Buicks, Fords and Pontiacs came out of the wrecks relatively unscathed. Connecticut State Police Commissioner Leo J. Mulcahy, who planned the project, pronounced the tests conclusive and declared: "We want to create buyer resistance to small cars and to arouse . . . public awareness of the dangers of riding in small cars...
Though many of the struggling "mom and pop" groceries have gone under, the surviving independent grocers have become bigger and smarter. They have banded into groups, such as the mid-Atlantic region's Foodland Stores and Texas' Minimax. These buy in carload lots, rent computers to watch inventories, and hire experts to keep their books, plan their ads, remodel their stores. The "voluntary chains" increased their share of U.S. food sales from 29% in 1947 to 49% last year...
Ironically, supermarkets are emulating the corner grocers. Chains such as Chicago's Jewel Tea Co. are experimenting with "pantries" that are one-fifth the size of usual supermarkets and are conveniently located in high-rise apartments. Bigger stores are also considering clearing their shelves of slow-moving items. They stock no fewer than 56 brands of pickles and 97 kinds of detergents, but about half hardly sell at all. The supermarketeers are now talking about making a higher profit with a smaller selection...
...popularity of such cars has hurt the small Volkswagen, cutting its share of the German market last year from 34% to 28% . Volkswagen's larger "1500" model is selling well enough to make up for some of the slippage, and France's Renault is reportedly readying a bigger sister for its Dauphine and Caravelle. Fiat recently introduced a 12-ft. "850" model whose chassis is almost a foot longer than the company's basic...