Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Studebaker-Packard Corp., his U.S. distributor. But a key factor in Daimler-Benz's plans will be the effect of the new U.S. compact cars on Mercedes' vital U.S. sales. Daimler-Benz is less worried than most other European car makers. Says President Fritz Konecke: "Our appeal is to a different kind of customer...
...Soviet sales. A Moscow city court last year tossed out a $180,000 suit brought by Adrian Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur's only surviving son, as a claim for the pirating of his father's writing. Three judges of the Soviet Supreme Court heard the case on appeal last week, decided that Sir Arthur has no rights under Soviet copyright law, which provides for no copyright protection to foreign authors...
...tongue to get equipment and supplies: drug and instrument manufacturers have donated material, several individual gifts topping $100,000. For ready cash, Dr. Dooley plowed in his book royalties and the proceeds from grueling lecture tours, once raised $10,000 (largely in dimes and quarters) from a single, heartfelt appeal on Dave Garroway's Today program...
...more and more U.S. churchgoers, that oldtime religion is losing its appeal. A trend toward more ritual and formality in church is on the rise, and it is now invading even the Bible Belt. Many a once plain Methodist church in Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states goes in for robed minister and choirs, stained-glass windows, sermons on theology and the life of Jesus rather than hellfire and repentance; a few even have acolytes. To some Southern Methodists, it is high time to make a stand against this creeping formalism. Said the Rev. Pierce Harris of Atlanta...
...Appeal. In Indianapolis, accused Bootlegger Eugene Turner was freed in court when the evidence-two half-pints of whisky-mysteriously disappeared...