Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LaGuardia, the Authority has made a promising start. Fifty vending machines (tooth brushes, toothpaste, etc.) have been installed. To attract sightseers (at 10? a head), loudspeakers on the promenade ramp give a play-by-play explanation of operations. On one Sunday, some 13,000 people watched the show...
Seventeen categories are listed by the Commission, which said that it desires "to attract men with force, imagination, initiative, as well as intellectual power--men capable of filling the junior and senior administrative posts which need so urgently to be strengthened...
...attract workers in a country that had three currencies, all of them worthless in native eyes (Dutch guilders, Japanese "banana money," Indonesian rupees), Gibbon paid his 4,000 laborers partly in food, partly in credits to be redeemed when the currency is stabilized...
Helped by Northwestern University's famed Surgeon Paul Magnuson, who had long wanted to team up veterans' hospitals with medical schools, Hawley began to train and attract topnotch doctors. Over the opposition of some big brass, he got a law taking the V.A. medical corps out of Civil Service and raising fees so that he might hire the ablest specialists as consultants...
...contribute to their own reconstruction. Above all, the corporation would check up continuously to make sure that U.S. aid was not being misused. In short, he wanted a sort of super-WPB to run the whole thing. With such a businesslike approach, Aldrich thought that his corporation would also attract direct investment in western Europe by private U.S. corporations, thus speed the job of rebuilding...