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...made compacts, which captured a record 38.4% of the auto market last August, hold only a 33% slice of it so far this year. Meantime, overall sales of small foreign cars, with which the Cardinal would directly compete, have shrunk to only 3.9% of the market-and in this area the dominant position is held by Volkswagen, which Ford regards as an uncommonly difficult competitor to dislodge. Beyond this, Ford fears that the Cardinal might make many of its sales at the expense of the Falcon, just as the Falcon ate into the Galaxie's sales...
...clutter of hundreds of savagely competing firms, the textile industry is dogged by the fact that since World War II, Americans have steadily reduced the percentage of their income they spend on clothes. As a result, U.S. production of cotton goods has fallen 2% since 1947, prices have shrunk 3%, and textile jobs have declined from 1,325,000 to 840,000. For the industry as a whole, profits run less than 2? on the dollar, which is one reason why textile stocks are selling below their book values and why textile wages are 20% below the U.S. manufacturing average...
Then, too, we have considerable evidence of man's further somatic evolution since the man-apes: he has grown, his jaw has shrunk, his face become smaller and lower on his head. If man's body can change and his mind expand, there is no reason why the "instinctual bundle" man has inherited from his predatory ancestors must be preserved intact. Ardrey assumes that it will be, though he does not explain...
...DECLINE OF COMPETITION. Since 1945, overall daily circulation has boomed from 46 million to 60 million, but in the same period the number of U.S. cities with competitive dailies has shrunk from 117 to 60. There are now 1,382 towns with newspaper monopolies...
...tough babies," few are now left in Katanga. Most were removed by the U.N.; others quit when their pay and allowances were cut and their authority reduced. Never more than 700 in number, their strength has shrunk to approximately 100. Around this nucleus has formed a rag-tail army of European civilians-not so much mercenaries, says one U.S. correspondent, as minutemen...