--- title: American Businesses Expanding Overseas: This Week in History description: "U.S. private investment abroad has octupled in 20 years," TIME reported in its 1967 year-end business review. canonical: https://time.com/5071053/1967-in-review/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-25T14:00:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:37:48.052Z article:section: History og:title: American Businesses Expanding Overseas: This Week in History og:description: Also in this issue: alcohol consumption and the end of an era og:url: https://time.com/5071053/1967-in-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe564345eb1c8547/6988f5ac22fb85fb37e24223/1101671229_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 400 og:image:height: 225 og:image:alt: Dec. 29, 1967 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: American Businesses Expanding Overseas: This Week in History twitter:description: Also in this issue: alcohol consumption and the end of an era twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe564345eb1c8547/6988f5ac22fb85fb37e24223/1101671229_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 50 Years Ago This Week: 1967 in Review > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Dec 25, 2017 2:00 PM UTC  The Dec. 29, 1967, issue of TIME The Dec. 29, 1967, issue of TIMECover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Dec 25, 2017 2:00 PM UTC _Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by week, as it was reported in the pages of TIME._ [_Catch up on last week’s installment here._](http://time.com/5058432/1967-bob-hope/) [**Week 52: Dec. 29, 1967**](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/pages/) This week’s issue, [like many year-end issues in this period](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/page/11/), took a look back at the year in business and economics, focusing on the internationalization of U.S. companies. Though not everyone was happy about the trend — the U.S. government as well as European leaders had condemned it as ultimately damaging to the global economy — this week’s [cover story](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/page/60/) made the argument that globalization could not be stopped. As the story explained, U.S. companies were rising to dominance around the globe: --- > “” --- Why was this happening? One theory was that, even as postwar Europe embraced the Common Market theory and encouraged trade between nations, European businesses were not fully prepared to function in that much larger market. American businesses, by contrast, were well used to operating in continent-spanning contexts. And what did that mean for the year ahead? Though 1967 had, despite international gains, seen a “mini-recession” in the U.S., economists [predicted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/page/64/) that the year 1968 would be “a good one — better than 1967.” **1967’s Person of the Year:** Though TIME’s editors have always been responsible for making the ultimate decision as to who would be the Person of the Year, that has never stopped readers from writing in with suggestions. Those ideas appearing in this week’s [Letters](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/page/9/) section run the gamut from “Wretched Humanity” to Timothy Leary. (Spoiler alert: It went to [LBJ](http://time.com/vault/issue/1968-01-05/page/1/).) **Drink up:** In the essay this week, TIME [took a look](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/page/19/) at the state of the American drinker. December was the drinkingest month of the year, and in 1967 Americans were expected to spend $1.1 billion ($8 billion in today’s dollars) on booze, with the year’s total consumption coming to 4 billion gallons of alcohol. (At the time, one in every 16 Americans drank enough to officially qualify as a problem drinker.) Though that sounds like a lot, the magazine’s stance on the matter was rather optimistic. Compared to past stats, more of that drinking was taking place in the home and consisted of wine, and it seemed that the nation — which had often veered wildly toward puritan teetotaling — was starting to take a more moderate, “commonsensical” attitude toward alcohol. Case in point: “The alcoholic is a product of any drinking culture,” the piece noted, “but America is beginning to realize that he is a sick man rather than a sinner.” **Out with the old:** As 1967 came to a close, so did a media era. With the [announcement](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/page/39/) that Universal News would cease distribution, the age of movie-theater newsreels came to an end, the old format displaced by television news. As the magazine noted, “managers find it more profitable to schedule an intermission instead of a newsreel and give patrons a chance to buy popcorn and 20¢ candy bars.” **In with the new:** Another realm in which video technology was making a difference was the [world of criminal justice](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/page/42/), as a Topeka, Kans., trial saw the second instance in U.S. history in which a judge watched a video in court in the course of a trial. **Great vintage ad:** The guy in [this Goodyear Chemicals ad](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-12-29/spread/32/) looks like a character from a Wes Anderson movie. **Revisit the year:** [Click here to see the whole of this series revisiting the year 1967 through the pages of TIME.](http://time.com/topic/50-years-ago-this-week/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5071053/1967-in-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5071053/1967-in-review/"},"headline":"50 Years Ago This Week: 1967 in Review","datePublished":"2017-12-25T14:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:37:48.052Z","description":"Also in this issue: alcohol consumption and the end of an era","url":"https://time.com/5071053/1967-in-review/","keywords":["Media"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe564345eb1c8547/6988f5ac22fb85fb37e24223/1101671229_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe564345eb1c8547/6988f5ac22fb85fb37e24223/1101671229_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dec. 29, 1967","caption":"Dec. 29, 1967","creditText":"Cover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/media/","name":"Media"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5071053/1967-in-review/","name":"50 Years Ago This Week: 1967 in Review"}}]}] ```