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...fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always the eel snapped the line or bit through it, and slid back to its underwater cave. As month followed month, the eel grew fat on Ivica's bait...
...results. They justify their program by referring to the help they have given individual patients. But faith healers, religious missionaries, and Norman Vincent Peale, Inc. have had as many individual cures as the psychiatrists, a fact which should give us some pause before we swallow the life adjustor's bait...
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...