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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charter Arms Corp. has the unique distinction of having two famous people shot by one of their products, I wonder if they have considered using it in their advertising. Something simple and tasteful like: 'The .38 that got George Wallace and John Lennon. See it at your gun dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Lethal Delusion | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...Three have been forced to hike the price of their fuel-efficient models mostly to pay for the $80 billion that they are spending to design and produce them. But Detroit may have pushed prices up too far and too fast. Says Marvin Alpern, a New York City Chevrolet dealer: "People come in and look at the prices, and they are shocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Road Is Still Rocky | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...customers out of the market. Last year a new car buyer in Michigan would have paid an average 12.68% interest for a 48-month new car loan. Now the interest rate is 16.05%. That can add as much as $50 to a car payment every month. Says Detroit Ford Dealer Mel Farr: "People want to buy cars, but they can't because of the basic high cost and the interest rates. Showroom traffic has just died. It is really depressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Road Is Still Rocky | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Almost routinely, Roller has become arms dealer for the "Cedar Rapids Air Force." He has snagged four UH-1B helicopters for medical evacuation use by the city. Two fly; the others are being cannibalized for spare parts. List price for these helicopters: about $250,000 each. They cost Cedar Rapids only $10,000, for repair and refitting. In addition, Roller has provided 17 two-seater Hughes TH-55 helicopters, some without engines, others near wrecks. Four operable craft have risen, phoenix-like, from the wrecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: A Wizard of Odds and Ends | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...plays; of arteriosclerosis; in Plainfield, N.J. Learning code-breaking during World War I at the U.S. Government's Riverbank Laboratories in Geneva, Ill., Friedman served as an expert witness in such trials as the so-called Doll Woman Case of 1944, in which an antique doll dealer in New York City was convicted of spying for Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1980 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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