Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such stars as Ann Todd, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Roc, Stewart Granger and John Mills will take their suntans and return to Britain as better attractions at the U.S. box office. Some of his artists, including Margaret Lockwood, are still on the verbal agreement basis because Hollywood is no lure to them. They prefer-out of patriotism and regard for Rank-to stay in England. Director David Lean (Great Expectations) is a case in point. After previewing the movie, a Hollywood executive wired Rank to find out how long his contract with Lean ran. Said Lean, who has no contract: "Forever...
...officially became a free port, the only one in the U.S. outside of New York's foreign-trade zone. New Orleans, now busting its buttons in its zeal to build up its port, second biggest in the U.S. in dollar volume, hoped that its foreign-trade zone would lure ships to the mouth of the Mississippi as New York's had brought ships into its harbor. For the South, now filled with a new spirit of industrialization, it was another step forward...
According to Variety, in a front-page "scoop" signed by Editor Abel Green, rich Marshall Field was waving his bankroll under Winchell's nose, to lure him away from Hearst and into the Chicago Sun, as Field had lured Cartoonist Milton Caniff from McCormick & Patterson. The bait: $200,000 a year, double Winchell's income from Hearst...
...auctioneer will be done by girls, the 'Cliffedwellers announced, in an effort to lure greater throngs to their sale In case of rain, the proceedings will take place in Agassiz Hall...
Only about 150 of the original 500 tickets are left after three days of purchasing by Yardlings, as the lure of a prize dance with a pretty model drew many to the ticket desk to enter next week's lottery...