Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Peter Falk and Neville Brand guest-star in Lament for a Dead Indian. Repeat...
Several years ago, major companies began to get rid of their excess gasoline by wholesaling it to private-brand operators, who then underpriced the big firms' stations by 2? or 3? per gal. The independents began to grab off 20% of the business in some areas. Last year, to protect their own stations, Gulf introduced its "subregular" Gulftane, and Sun brought out its Blue Sunoco 190, which compete directly with the independents' prices. Other major oil companies also cut prices, financed the local fights by keeping prices high at their stations on superhighways...
Customers, many of whom have little brand loyalty, have become cagey in playing the ups and downs at the fuel pumps. Says Detroit Independent Lee Rogers: "When prices go up, customers start buying 50? worth at a time, waiting for prices to go back down before they fill up. The sad part of this thing is that they are right...
...speeds up to 77 m.p.h. on a 48-h.p. engine placed up front. In Britain, its basic price is $1,372. When the car is exported to the U.S. in about six months, it will probably be sold under the sporty marque of M.G., another B.M.C. brand...
Adapted from a bestselling novel by a supersalaried screenwriter named Irwin Shaw, Two Weeks tells the story of a cinemale (Kirk Douglas) who goes barreling down Easy Street, runs into a mental block, spends six years on the reassembly line, comes out with a brand-new head, starts warily down the comeback trail. He finds it jammed with competition, potholed with passions, mined with animosities...