Word: sales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...auto industry sold 10,400,000 U.S.-made cars and trucks in 1968, the best year for total vehicle sales in Detroit's history. Despite slightly lower profit margins, General Motors had a $1.73 billion profit, up 6% from 1967, on record sales of $22.8 billion. Chrysler increased earnings by 45%, to $291 million. Ford, which has yet to report, will show a gain over 1967, when it was slowed by a 49-day strike. Struggling American Motors earned $11.8 million during the fiscal year ending last September, its first full-year profit since 1965. The performance was helped...
While small towns generally welcome the bases as a boost to their economies, urban dwellers view the ABM more as a magnet to enemy missiles than as a defense against them. On Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, protests are financed by the sale of buttons reading "SCRAM!" -an acronym for Sentinel Cities Reject Anti-Missiles...
Sure enough, the kids came as they were - in leather ponchos, chains, boots, olive-drab Army overcoats and lots of long hair. They ganged up at the box of fice just before concert time and gave Lincoln Center's Great Performers series its best one-day sale of the season...
Unfortunately, the biggest advance sale in the world is no insurance against mediocre audience and critical response. In Dear World's case, the opening night audience at the Colonial was polite, but little more. The show's jokes got the mildest of laughs; the musical numbers merited only perfunctory applause. Much later, when the cast and creators were back in their hotel rooms, the reviews confirmed the audience reaction. Kelly said major revisions were in order, and Norton, usually enthusiastic about Broadways musicals and standard comedies, had only faint praise for Dear World...
...that. In fact, most of the photos were not unlike those in my own town newspaper: first-of-the-New-Year babies understandably bemused over the sudden transition from anonymity to notoriety; vindicated matrons having just reasserted the triumph of their risen Lord through a successful church bakery sale; or, inevitably, the distraught but delighted graduating high school class. All smiling, self-conscious, vacuous. Or are they really vacuous? Just what am I allowed to see behind the conventional stance and posture with which they protect themselves from the photographer...