Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From all over the country, industries are swarming to Florida's balmy business climate, with the added incentive of no state income tax. Furthermore, Florida's resortlike climate is sure bait for hard-to-get engineers and topflight executives. When starting its West Palm Beach plant, Pratt & Whitney advertised for engineers in Northern newspapers, offered them a choice of jobs in the Midwest, New England, Florida, California. Florida led the other areas combined...
SAIL NOW, PAY LATER will be transatlantic ship companies' new bait for tourists. Following the airlines' passenger-luring lead, Moore-McCormack Lines got Maritime Commission's approval to sell tickets at 10% down, the balance in 20 months, and other lines are also expected to start installment plan...
...Armand in his romantic quest, some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom...
...Tainted Bait. In Denver, Virgil Wilson, 25, wandered into a U.S. Secret Service agency, lifted $10 in coins from a desk drawer, smiled pleasantly at unconcerned employees, was nabbed as he left, hauled off to jail and booked for possession of counterfeit money...
...year) is blocked by an outrageous menagerie of nitpickers and by his own absence of ambition. But his happy inconsequence irritates a blue-eyed, butterfat young stenographer and she dangles herself in front of Humphrey like a hunk of process cheese. Mouse that he is, he leaps for the bait and begins to assert himself around his office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change your life, Humph, you can show them all that a civil...