Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury wanted to raise only $2 billion on its new 5% note, aimed to attract the little investor. But the demand was so great that $11 billion in orders poured in last week. "There was such a crowd on the floor," said the vice president of a New York mutual savings bank, "that for a moment I thought there was a run on the bank." All over the U.S., investors pulled their money out of their institutionalized socks to buy the four-year, ten-month issue, which finance officials have gleefully dubbed the "magic fives."* The New York Federal Reserve...
Radcliffe should attract over 300 potential donors. Pledges will be fulfilled the second week in December...
...Whether or not WHRB opens its competition to women, Radio Radcliffe will continue operating as a separate station," Susan E. Zimet '60, president of the Radcliffe station, said last night. She emphasized that WHRB probably would not attract girls who would otherwise have worked for Radio Radcliffe...
...reality of the Hungarian border's barbed wire and watch-towers. With the cooperation of the Americans, students published a seven language newspaper to present accounts ignored in the Russian reports. All over Vienna bookstores displayed books impossible to obtain in satellite countries, and "Information Booths" sought to attract the wandering delegates. And there was the atmosphere of Vienna itself, its prosperity and its feeling of being an obviously free city...
...problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities. And the presses in turn are starting to attract first-rate editors and designers to give the works a professional shine. So improved are the book designs that about 25% of the selections at the annual books show of the American Institute of Graphic Arts are products of the university presses...