Word: attract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington department stores, helping along an increase in the sale of ladies' fans (50? to $50), distributed an instruction booklet on fan language-"a language more eloquent than words, more revealing than a kiss." Excerpts: "Touch your lips with the fan to attract a kissing man." "I must see you alone (drop fan)." "You are too bold (unfurl fan quickly...
...meaning in a few words, all of which is desirable, particularly in this day and age when too much is said about too little. It seems to me, however, that the adjectives applied to Cincinnati have accomplished no particular good, nor are they entirely accurate ... In our efforts to attract further industries to Cincinnati ... we are pointing out the many advantages Cincinnati has to offer to new industries and new people who are about to locate here, and naturally we feel that any such statement in a magazine with the broad circulation TIME has is very apt to have...
...manufacturing there. The replacement of basing points by f.o.b. pricing had boosted the company's steel bill $9.20 a ton, and it would save money by being at Pittsburgh. Encouraged by the plant shift, the Pittsburgh Industrial Development Council began tootling its horn to attract other fugitives from freight charges. But Detroit, which uses twice as much steel as it produces, started a campaign to make more. Said. its board of commerce: "We have iron ore going right past our door. We have limestone . . . [All] we need is coal...
Last week Professor Eckstein, 57, was busy observing the character of amoebas (brutal), the monogamy of pigeons (not onerous), and the troubles of blonde female canaries that seem to attract too many males...
...years ago, had sunk a reported $580,000 (their own and other people's) into making it a Democratic afternoon daily. But even in its best month the Times lost $5,000. After John quit (TIME, Feb. 16), Anna loaded the Times with puffs, hoping to appease and attract advertisers. She succeeded only in displeasing her 31,000 readers and antagonizing her staff...