Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alas, Lord & Thomas advertising (with Andy's and my book for bait) was getting such terrific results that the banks forced the Treasury to withdraw the book for fear people would syphon the savings banks to buy Treasury certificates...
...idea. Torgsin's 5-&-10 kopek stores are already doing business in Leningrad, Moscow, Kharkov and a few other big cities. They are actually 5-kopek (4?), 10-kopek (9?), 25, 50 and 100-kopek or one-ruble (87?) stores. Like all Torgsin stores they are designed as bait for foreigners' money. For 5-&-10 they sell knives, tumblers, toothpaste, soap, pins, pencils, notebooks, candy, sandwiches, tea, coffee. And last week Mr. Gordeeff claimed for U. S. tourists' ears that some Torgsin prices are still lower than current U. S. prices. Some prices: 1 lb. of chocolate...
...death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind the trap. Beavers live chiefly on bark, twigs, the roots of water plants...
...Soviet iron-using trusts that a great meteorite, rich in iron, aluminum and even platinum, was due to drop soon near a non-existent city in Kazakstan. They intended, they said, to be on the spot. Their Trust was open for iron orders. Man after head man swallowed the bait, wrote back for details which the editors gleefully supplied as their sole stock-in-trade. Finally even the great Scrap Iron Trust gave them an order on the Trust's Kazakstan representative...
...unanimous vote of the whole family, old and young. We value your publication not only for its brilliant readability, correctness and broad outlook on national and world affairs but for its impartial selection and statement of all significant news. . . . Tonight we were disappointed to see TIME used as a bait for a very partial and one-sided discussion in an after-program. As you know, the Administration program has about crowded adverse discussion off the air. Questionable methods have been used for a long time now to get the views of the Committee for the Nation and those views alone...