Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England Regional Chairman of the National Student Association has issued a last minute appeal calling on Harvard students to rejoin NSA. Undergraduates will vote on the issue in a college-wide referendum tomorrow...
Shortly before the beaten German armies surrendered in 1945, Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces, received a secret appeal from Nazi Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler...
Married. Juanita Dale Phillips (Candy Barr), 24, Las Vegas stripteaser sentenced to 15 years on a narcotics conviction, whose unsuccessful U.S. Supreme Court appeal was financed by Mickey Cohen; and Jack Sahakian, 28, Los Angeles beauty-salon operator; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...
Demand for the new models is strong. One big factor is the powerful sales appeal of the compact cars, which account for 25% of total 1960 models produced so far. The orders are pouring in so fast that Ford last week made plans to shift over its Metuchen (N.J.) Mercury plant to produce Ford's Falcon and the new Comet, scheduled to make its appearance next spring. Ford will not cut back on Mercury -other Mercury plants will take up the slack. It just needs a third production facility to turn out all the compacts the U.S. public apparently...
Mortimer wants products with the widest popular appeal, shies away from the specialized or offbeat food. At General Foods, this policy has resulted in a pretax profit of 10? on sales v. 6.8? for the No. 3 processor, Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn, Royal desserts, etc.), but well below the 14.8? of Campbell Soup, the No. 2 company. Overall, General Foods profits have risen from $28 million in 1954, when Mortimer took over, to an estimated $60 million this year. But Mortimer is still not satisfied with some of his products, notably the Gourmet line, intends to make some changes. Says...