Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned his ways and, hitched to man's rising star, flourished. At present the black and brown rats are more completely domesticated than horses or cattle; there are none at all in the original wild state. They are so accustomed to living with men that the best scent lure for attracting them, says Specialist Nicholes, is the man-scent...
...transship, sort, grade and indefinitely store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent smuggling. Los Angeles fears the zone will lure so many ships to Frisco that it is hustling to get a zone...
Tobogganing, sleigh-riding, and ice fishing provide plenty of sport for the non-skier, while dog-sled races and horse racing on ice have been known to lure even slat fiends from the trail...
...attitude toward the candidacy of Henry A. Wallace. Wallace followers are patriotic enough, in ADA's view, but both inspiration and string-pulling for the third party are based upon the international Soviet goal of destroying Continental economies in the service of Communist ascendancy to power. Recognizing the emotional lure of the Wallace symbol on issues of civil liberties and domestic reaction, ADA bases its appeal to liberals on opposition to Wallace's anti-Marshall Plan stand. Sacrificing the democracy of Western Europe, it claims, is "too high a price to pay for the luxury of a 'protest vote...
Under the Wiggins leadership, the Chamber set off a massive publicity campaign to lure settlers. Items: pamphlets entitled "Land of Heart's Desire," barnstorming trains full of oversized California vegetables, claims that "mad dogs and sunstroke are never known here." Under Wiggins, the Chamber spearheaded the development of the city's $220,000,000 aqueduct and its $59,000,000 artificial harbor. His uninhibited supersalesmanship put the Los Angeles Chamber...