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There were several other surprises at Ford last week. Chrysler declared that it had outsold Ford during early 1982, the only time it has done so in a nonstrike year since 1953. The company angrily retorted that Chrysler had distorted the figures by including the sales of 2,768 Japanese vehicles that it imports. Ford shareholders also got a shock when the company announced that it would not pay a dividend for the first three months of this year. This will be the first time Ford has skipped a stock payment since going public...
More and more bikers are demanding their share of the American street and road. In 1972, bicycles outsold cars in the U.S. for the first time. Five years ago, an average of 470,000 Americans commuted to work on bicycles on any given day, and Washington hopes that by 1985 as many as 2.5 million will be on the streets, saving as many as 77,000 bbl. of oil a day. OPEC and the huge American self-regard coincided to persuade millions of Americans that the bike makes both financial and cardiovascular sense...
...liveliest, if least respected newspapers in the country. Advertisers were bullied, civic leaders were indiscriminately attacked, and readers came to know Publisher Bonfils' homespun creed: "A dogfight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe." Yet the formula worked; the afternoon Post regularly outsold its morning rival, the Rocky Mountain News (now owned by the Scripps-Howard chain). As Tammen liked to say, "We're yellow, but we're read, and we're true blue...
Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that...
...year it captured a third of the fast-growing market−but then went no higher. Polaroid came out with its $39.95 OneStep to challenge Kodak's identically priced Handle. Though both cameras were immediate successes, accounting for more than half of all instant-camera sales, the OneStep outsold the Handle by about 2 to 1. The OneStep has a motor that instantly ejects the print after exposure, while the Handle must be cranked before the print emerges. Kodak has brought out two improved instant models, the Colorburst 100 and the Colorburst...