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...borrowing technique called advance refunding which it has not used in five years. The Treasury is offering holders of $12.5 billion in World War II bonds which mature between 1967 and 1969 the chance to turn them in for new bonds which will mature in 20 to 38 years. Bait to the bond owners is a 3½% interest rate on the new bonds (v. 2½% on the old ones). Treasury hopes $3 billion to $5 billion of the old bonds will be converted to the new issue. Chief advantage to the Treasury is that the plan will extend...
...Lucky Buck" contests soliciting dollar bills whose serial numbers included a five and a zero, and zodiac-and crossword-puzzle contests. All offered free dance lessons as a reward for the right answers, but the FTC charged that the contests were too easy to be genuine, were used as bait with which high-pressure Murray salesmen conned prospects into signing up for added courses...
...Need Food." By prearrangement, Proctor picked up the first batch of Boyd copy for distribution to the 40-odd papers that had bitten on the Chronicle bait...
...years since 1889, currently pays $4 per share. The C. & O., which had guessed down to the dollar how far the Central would go to top its offer, is counting on its sound financial position and dividend prospects to impress B. & O. stockholders more than the Central's bait...
Nonetheless, Boston is not all evil, being, at the least, free from the "three great annoyances of Woolves, Rattle-snakes and Musketoes." William Wood divulged this attraction in 1634 as a bait for future settlers. They came: they pushed their cows about to create Boston's streets, and later died, filling an astoundingly large number of graveyards...