Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican economic theory allows for no measures strong or direct enough to create industrial jobs for these unemployed. Jobs must be created not only to absorb farmers, but also to attract them. In this context, Stevenson has advocated long range-range Federal aid and development in depressed areas, which would certainly be a partial solution. He has, in addition, envisioned wide scale development of small industries in non-urban areas. While he did not mention this idea in reference to the farm problem, Stevenson has the insight and the imagination to make the application...
...above 1954 levels. Says the Detroit Retail Merchants Association's James Dallavo: "Suburban shopping centers have made downtown merchants better promoters and salesmen, with emphasis on wider assortment and price range." Most downtown store owners who open shopping-center branches say that they are thus able to attract new customers, most of whom inevitably visit the parent store. In the fight for the shopper's dollar, downtown merchants have also been helped by the bad planning and high operating costs which often plague suburban developments, e.g., Framingham, a $7,000,000 shopping center outside Boston which went bankrupt...
...asks 'What can I do?' and the volunteer says, 'I don't know; I'm just a volunteer.' " ¶Set up G.O.P. campaign schools in every congressional district and started the first of a statewide network of citizens' committees designed to attract the independent and stay-at-home voter-"the voter who would vote for us." ¶Tripled his own central-office staff and hired specialists to work with speakers, women's organizations, Young Republicans, state and national candidates' schedules, and on relations with the plodding Old-Guard-dominated state legislature...
...Cent Sole. The fast growth of the market has been nourished by new selling techniques. Columbia poured $1,000,000 into advertising its mail-order record club to attract a new group of buyers that now represents 15% to 20% of the LP market (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955). Other companies launched their own clubs, have about 1,500,000 members who will buy an expected $20 million through the mail. RCA, which originally shunned the club idea because its dealers feared the competition, announced instead this week a coupon plan to lure buyers into dealers' shops...
...Tufts is aware that the fraternities, which compose about one-third of the resident students, do tend to attract small individual groups. But usually when this happens other students, both commuters and dormitory residents, will go on unaware of the clique until it disbands or gradually drifts back into the community...