Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...passengers (v. twelve for the Sikorsky S-58 now in use in Chicago and Los Angeles, and 21 for the old DC-3), has an estimated direct operating cost of 8? per seat mile (v. 16? per seat mile for the older ships), cruises at 136 m.p.h. To attract more passengers, the S-61 has a plush, airliner-like interior designed by Raymond Loewy Associates. Los Angeles Airways has ordered five ships, at $650,000 apiece, intends to put the first two in service in late summer when Federal Aviation Agency approval is expected to be granted. Chicago Helicopter Airways...
Push and Pull. Romance faded but inspiration remained. Almost immediately, he began to attract attention. He became the pupil of Hans Hofmann, dean of the uninhibited "push and pull" technique. But no sooner was Rivers safely launched as a promising abstract expressionist than boredom...
Anxious to attract U.S. industry, many countries go out of their way to give U.S. firms special consideration. France's economic ministry promises government loans of up to 15% of the cost of a plant built in any of the country's depressed areas. What U.S. companies find most fetching abroad is the chance to make bigger profits than in the U.S., thanks to lower costs and rapidly growing markets. H. J. Heinz makes half its sales in foreign markets, and this half produces two-thirds of all Heinz profits. Chesebrough-Pond's gets...
This indecisive planning cannot be blamed entirely on the planners of Twentieth Century Week--such waverings between over-ambitiousness and over-conservatism are implicit in practically any such undergraduate enterprise. Nor are they fully responsible for the program's failure to attract wide-spread undergraduate interest. For they ran into serious trouble in attempting to raise funds and acquire whole-hearted support from the Harvard administration, causing them to narrow greatly the scope of their plans...
This of course, put the group smack in the midst of an inescapable dilemma. To attract speakers from under-developed land, they would have to promise money for transportation, housing, and sometimes also pay honorariums. To receive the money, they would have to acquire ironclad commitments from each of the speakers...