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...everyone, that is, except American Motors???as usual. Alone among the four U.S. automakers, it suffered a sales decline, of a sharp 28.6%. That cut its long-sliding share of the U.S. market (excluding imports) from an already poor 2.9% last year to a nearly invisible 1.9% during the October period (its high was 6.4% in 1963). It was an inauspicious week for a new driver to take over. Nonetheless, Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., the man most closely associated with AMC's long struggle for survival, handed over the chief executive's job to President Gerald C. Meyers. Chapin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Driver for The Laggard | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...MONEY AND MOTORS???Theodore F. MacManus and Norman Beasley?Harpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whence Detroit | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...total of $150,000 is available, towards which Captain Wilkins has been the largest contributor. Some time between March 20 and May 1, the plane?a Fokker with three Wright whirlwind air-cooled motors?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ice Pole | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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