Word: baits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music's "anti-aggression front" salvoed its reply last week. In Lucerne, Switzerland, for the second year, opened a month-long festival designed to cabbage some of the Salzburg trade. Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist...
...Duce proclaimed himself "Protector of Islam" two years ago, but last spring he nevertheless invaded Albania, a predominantly Moslem country. In Germany hand-picked Arabs are invited as honor guests to the Nazi Party's annual Congress at Nürnberg, where they usually hear Nazi orators bait the Jews. Both Nazi and Fascist newspapers, moreover, rarely miss a chance to fight the battle of the Arab in Palestine and Syria. Last week they found some choice items to report...
Sponge-rubber bait, for mousetraps, which cannot be nibbled off without springing the trap...
Ford, whose philosophy is based on low prices and big volume, took his time shopping for his 50,000 tons. For weeks he dangled the bait until big time steelmen forgot that the price of 1,000,000 tons was at stake, enough to keep U. S. continuous rolling mills busy for more than a month, while 50,000 tons add up to a couple of days' work.* By October 1, steelmen were in a competitive lather...
...power of Detroit itself is in the hands of auto purchasing agents, the best bargain hunters in big-time business. To them every posted price is a target to snipe at. They did their 1938 steel buying in two big lots, each time at their own price. Using as bait bigger orders than the steel industry has seen in some time, they are again angling for a steel price cut. Back in the days of Judge Gary, neither Henry Ford nor anyone else argued about the price of steel. Today the price is Detroit-minus instead of Pittsburgh-plus. Last...