5/97Amount Americans spent last year on golf clubs: $1,370,000,000

National Sporting Goods Association (Mount Prospect, Ill.)

9/08Estimated percentage change since last year in U.S. sales of golf carts for purposes other than golf: +215

Tomberlin Automotive Group (Augusta, Ga.)

4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000

Can Manufacturers Institute (Washington, D.C.)

1/87Percentage increase in U.S. sales of Mexican beer in 1985: 60

Advertising Age (New York City)

8/92Percentage change, since 1970, in beer production in China, per capita: +372

United States Feed Grain Council (Washington)/U.S. Census Bureau (Hyattsville, Md.)