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WHEN President Nixon announced his New Economic Policy last August, he made Detroit the hub of his recovery program. The Government eliminated the federal excise tax on U.S.-made cars, saving buyers an average of $200 an auto, and effectively wiped out the price advantage that foreign autos had enjoyed in American showrooms -first by slapping a surcharge on imports, later by campaigning successfully for revaluation of the German mark and Japanese yen. Since last fall the strategy has been paying off. Sales of imported cars so far this year have slumped to 14.5% of the total, down a percentage...
...numbers every day, ran lots of patriotic and sensational stories on subversives and fires, and generally catered to the city's hardcore working class people. But while the Record's editorial approach clearly came out on top in the latest merger, the transition destroyed the fibre by which Hub Area Readers identified their respective morning rags...
...HUB SCORNS APRIL, LAUDS MAY" was a headline that a copy editor attached to a weather story I wrote once during the year, two years ago, that I worked for the Boston Herald Traveler. It is a real headline; an example of the Herald at its most Herald-like. It was quite a newspaper...
...Avenue, I suppose they'll ask the city government to change the names of the streets--Herald Street and Traveler Street--that abut the plant. I hope they do not erase these two tiny monuments to failure, and if they do I hope someone will say for us all. "HUB SCORNS NAME CHANGE, LAUDS FOND MEMORY...
Scandinavia is a hub of social and economic experimentation. Years before Women's Lib got going in the U.S., the Swedes created the hemmaman, a housebound husband who sent his wife off to work. Last year the Swedes also changed much of their auto industry by replacing sections of the assembly line with group assembly techniques (TIME, Jan. 17). Now R. BØg JØrgensen's Maskinfabrik, a Danish company that is Scandinavia's largest maker of food canning and freezing equipment, is pioneering an alternative to the weekly or monthly paycheck for employees...