Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private companies operate mostly in rural areas, and, cried Lesage. do not have the resources to provide first-class service. Besides, their stockholders like Lesage's price: $350 million, with the province assuming $250 million in corporate debts. Nationalization, promised Lesage, would provide the power potential needed to attract modern industry to the remote reaches of the province. It would free French-speaking Canadians from long-established domination by English-speaking shareholders. It would bring new light to the far northern regions that now get flickery 25-cycle power...
...control the trains most of the way, with speeds and slowdowns for stops programmed on tape. Running time will be cut to three hours, from 6½ hours on the parallel Old Tokaido Line. The Japanese National Railways expects the New Tokaido's speed, style and comfort to attract 60,000 passengers daily, justify its investment of close to $1 billion...
...surrendered by default to the airlines. Experiments with low-slung Talgo trains seven years ago failed because of excessive vibration and passenger queasiness at speeds up to 100 m.p.h. As for future attempts, Pennsylvania Railroad Chairman James M. Symes offers the prevailing view: "We do not believe we could attract patronage from the air and highways to justify the expenditure...
Interhouse dining with Radcliffe was suggested by Cornelius J. Minihan '63. It was tried last year, noted Trottenberg, but "Radcliffe just didn't attract its share. Dunster and Quincy, he said, now have the plan on a limited basis, although "a lot of Masters don't want their dining halls filled with any more 'Cliffies than there are at present on date nights...
...Campbell is to beat either of the incumbent Democrats, he must pull in a solid Republican vote, away many liberal Democrats in the Harvard Sq. area, and attract a large proportion of the Negro vote in the Houghton district...