Word: sold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...posters--slightly censored reproductions of the banned "Two Virgins" album cover--were sold for $2 each from a panel truck parked next to Nini's newsstand. A loud-speaker on the truck blared snatches of old Beatles songs to attract passers...
...more expensive behemoths of the highways will benefit from better sales. Trucking companies are pressing manufacturers for ever larger, more efficient, maintenance-free trucks and are willing to pay a higher initial cost to keep upkeep down. Last year, some 100,000 of the over-13-ton class were sold, mostly by Harvester, White Truck, Mack and CMC. The demand is such that their number is expected to triple...
Knudsen has good reason to gloat. For the first time since 1935, Ford trucks are expected to outsell the longtime leader, Chevrolet. By Nov. 10, Ford had sold 562,000 trucks, against Chevrolet's 548,000; it expects to reach an alltime record of 650,000 by Jan. 1. Yet Chevrolet should not feel too bad: its truck sales are expected to increase by 11% over last year...
...retain its third place in total volume (1967 sales: 167,000 units), ahead of Dodge (141,000), Kaiser Jeep (116,000), CMC (114,000), White Truck (24,000), Mack (16,000) and FWD (1,200). These nine manufacturers accounted for almost all of the 1,500,000 trucks sold in the U.S. last year, dividing a $3.6 billion market among themselves...
...manufacturers feel best of all is the resurgence of the good old pickup. "This year Mama's interested in pickup trucks," says Chevrolet's new truck-sales manager, O. H. Henry. "They have become a kind of second car." Altogether, some 100,000 new pickups will be sold in 1968 as "campers," which are $3,000 to $4,000 vehicles that have been upgraded to $5,000 and more to include extras...