Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similar ads in other pockets of prosperity around the U.S. have been popping up since the middle of December, along with bumper stickers reading I'M NOT BUYING RECESSION and even an occasional billboard. Read one in Charleston, S.C., where unemployment was only 3.2%: WELCOME TO CHARLESTON. THE RECESSION ENDS HERE. Charleston, in fact, is where the contagious campaign originated with Manley Eubank, a Ford automobile dealer. Worried that Americans were talking themselves into a recession, he decided to do something about it. The first spate of ads and bumper stickers appeared after Eubank got the Charleston Automobile Dealer...
Last year it was food prices. This year soaring electricity bills could be the main focus of consumer outrage. In Maryland, where the Potomac Electric Power Co. is seeking a 22% residential rate increase, bumper stickers proclaim FIGHT THE HIKE, and customers are underpaying bills in protest. To battle a 23% increase proposed by the Virginia Electric & Power Co., local governments are raising a $100,000 legal war chest. Some bitter citizens in North Carolina have threatened" the life of State Utility Commission Chairman Marvin Wooten if Duke Power Co.'s call for a 23% increase is approved. Wooten...
Schuller's accommodations for the suburban middle class and its cars keep his shopping center full. At the various Sunday services, a total of 2,200 children attend classes in the Tower, 4,400 adults pack the glass-walled sanctuary and another 1,600 sit outside bumper to bumper, listening in on car radios. Undoubtedly, many are tourists drawn by such attractions as the twelve fountains (one for each apostle), the crown of thorns plant, and the "still waters" reflecting ponds...
...guess now I should tell you about the Volvo with the "Save The Whales" bumper sticker on the back and the peace medallion Mrs. Sizemore picked up at Saks Fifth Avenue, and the other kid who is a ski bum, and how much they enjoy New York magazine and African...
...Department of Transportation now agrees that the bumpers, which weigh 100 Ibs. or more, are not worth the cost. The DOT is proposing a rollback to the 1972 requirement-ability to withstand a 2.5-m.p.h. impact. Insurance companies, some Congressmen and several public interest groups, which contend that the stronger bumpers will hold down damage costs, oppose such a move. But they also maintain that the weighty, expensive bumpers U.S. carmakers are using are unnecessary. The bumper on the West German Opel, for instance, is as strong as the steel one on the new Ford Pinto, yet it weighs only...