Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havoc. In Wallsend, Australia, Hilton Clifford, 42, fell into a beery sleep during a cops-and-robbers movie, woke up when the villain was bludgeoning the heroine, ran through the town yelling for help, tore up a wooden station house gate to attract police to the scene, was fined ?1 ($2.24), ordered to pay ?10 damages...
...tone of a morality play called The Vanishing Island, which it is presenting in the Asian capitals. Commented one high U.S. official: "The show ridicules the ideals of the free West . . ." Freedom is portrayed as license and self-indulgence, freedom of the press as cynical reporting to attract readers, elections as a means to avoid responsibility, free enterprise as grasping for endless profits, and liberty as a meaningless chant. The official concluded that many Government officials were "unhappy about the Moral Re-Armament movement," but were afraid to speak out be cause of its influential support...
...toward utilities, some of the results are already in. Mexican Light, given a 21% rate rise and promised another increase later, paid its first common-stock dividends in 41 years. Last week it confidently put $2,000,000 worth of securities on the market; the company expects eventually to attract enough private capital-together with public loans and earnings-to finance a $200 million, ten-year expansion plan. American & Foreign Power, promised a rate increase soon, plans a $40 million, five-year building program, using public and private capital. The telephone company got a 45% increase, plus a government loan...
...massive reputation as an astute parliamentary tactician, stupidly built in certain defeat when he diverted money to the Fulton public power plant. Many Northern Democrats were willing enough to knife Dixon-Yates, but few would vote for more Government-subsidized power for the South-power that would inevitably attract more migratory industry from the North...
...land, making proud landholders (of 10-to 15-acre farms) out of 90,000 peasants. Already detailed projects still to come: safe drinking water for 1,200 towns, construction of 1,300 miles of new roads and rehabilitation of 6,400 miles of old ones, new hotels to attract tourists, irrigation projects...