Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday Drivers. The expanded newspaper coverage is largely an unintended product of TV, which acts as a spur to competition. Because it whets reader interest in the conventions, TV is also serving in effect as a commercial for the printed word. Said Carroll Linkins, who has been one of Western Union's press shepherds at the national conventions since 1936: "If you see an event on TV, you want to read an expert to see if he saw what...
Despite his deep interest in the ancient and the Oriental, Seattle's Fuller firmly believes that "it is a museum's duty to support local people and to spur local art of quality." As a result, he has played a key role in promoting the Northwest's regional school, which includes such top artists as Tobey, Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson. One Seattle art dealer summed up Patron-Director Fuller's contribution with feeling: "Dr. Fuller has brought art to the Northwest and the art of the Northwest to the world...
...spur trade-ins, FHA has put into effect a liberalized financing program. For the first time real-estate brokers and land developers are eligible for FHA mortgages on trade-in deals, thus freeing them of the financial burden of carrying trade-ins on their own. Furthermore, builders who take trade-ins are no longer required to make FHA-approved major improvements before reselling them. Builders complain that the FHA still takes too long to move, appraises houses too low, lends too little on mortgages. In most cases, builders can get a top of 85% on the owner's mortgage...
Rojas' favorite weekend hideout is his luxurious estate at Melgar. Since he acquired the place, millions of government pesos have gone into improving the highway that links it with Bogota, the nation's capital, and millions more have been allotted for a rail spur from Melgar to the nearest railroad trunk...
TRANS-EUROPEAN PIPELINE to carry oil from Mediterranean to North Sea is planned by Royal Dutch-Shell group. To cost up to $280 million, project is for 30-in. line running 700 miles from Marseilles north through France and Germany to Rotterdam with spur branching off to Paris. Possible connection: a line running from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 185 miles south through Ruhr industrial area...