Word: attract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement did not attract general notice until the price of copper in New York and London began to climb, and until copper shares in Wall Street began to advance even through a generally declining stock market. Meanwhile all is not peaceful in the American copper industry; considerable dispute has risen over a proposed tariff to shut out cheap foreign production. Every copper company is taking sides according to its interests. Leading companies to suffer by such a tariff are: Anaconda, with extensive production in Chile through ownership of the Chile Copper Co.; Kennecott, which owns Breden Copper, also in Chile...
...Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business exceeded $15,000,000. Mr. Thompson, also in the grocery business, has netted a fortune. Thirty years ago he was a downstate Illinois farmer...
...Thompson restaurants "attract by sheer pull of good food, cleanliness, purity, service, prices ailways kept down, even in the War." Based on these principles, the Thompson Restaurants, now 103, have spread into all principal cities from Milwaukee to New Orleans, from Providence to Kansas City. In 1921, the volume of business exceeded $15,000,000. Mr. Thompson, also in the grocery business, has netted a fortune. Thirty years ago he was a downstate Illinois farmer...
...spite of the large number of suggestions already sent in, the Board feels that the increased award will attract many more. The contest is taking on a national aspect and a full expression of public opinion is desired. All the New England states have already been heard from as well as New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Texas, Florida, Colorado, the District of Columbia, and several provinces of Canada...
...printed lectures, which it is said will destroy the "aristocracy of brains" and "reduce exisiting universities to mere laboratories for the lecture publisher" will attract the eager attention of everyone who seeks a now way to learn old facts. The plan of the People's Institute, which will direct the publication is to teach the public at large the academic, or so-called "cultural" subjects by means of constantly revised and modernized lectures by some of the best teachers, printed and broadcasted in a convenient form...