Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every major city on the seaway route is planning waterfront improvements to attract shipping. Chicago will start work this summer on a $22.5 million dock expansion program; Toronto already has built a new million-dollar freight terminal, and is filling in waterfront sites for two more. Cleveland, Toledo, Duluth, Buffalo, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec all have laid plans to better their harbors and build bigger docks. More than 40,000,000 tons of ocean cargo are expected to clear through the seaway in its first year of operation, yielding an average of $1 a ton in harbor fees and loading...
...participation in foreign-trade fairs and cultural events, asked ANTA to be its contractor for talent, and set aside $2,250,000 for it to get the program rolling. ANTA utilizes panels of top critics to select its export talent (mostly big-name, to attract attention), depends on professional managers to supervise productions. Although the Government sometimes gets requests from Congressmen to send little home-town bands abroad, it leaves the selection completely to ANTA. When possible, ANTA picks groups that have already planned a tour, offers to underwrite all or part of their losses. U.S. artists have made...
...Administration decides definitely to use the Shady Hill property for faculty housing, there are two possible ways it can make sure the land actually goes to that use. The first--and the only way to attract junior Faculty members--would be for the University to subsidize the building itself, and thereby lower the rent of the $75-$85 which these men can afford. Yet this would be an expensive proposition at a time when other more important projects are on the drydocks awaiting the flood of Corporation cash...
...Dorothea Dix is engaged, but proves so reluctant to give up work in the school she has started that the romance collapses. Sixteen years later, on her first visit to the East Cambridge jail, where lunatics are kept alongside prisoners, one inmate snarls at her: "You couldn't attract a man if you tried." Dorothea answers: "Your words open an old wound. You see, I have my troubles, too." But thereafter she makes the troubles of the mentally ill her preoccupation...
Some residents present, however, led by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, questioned whether or not such a development would prove inexpensive enough to attract young faculty members. Others present also objected that the proposed construction would spoil the appearance of the neighborhood...