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...Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave a masterly performance as leader of the plot. Laboristas took the bait...
...Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. He broke his week-long silence in the council to snarl: "It is useless to think that the U.S.S.R. delegation will bite at this bait. It is naive to believe that the U.S.S.R. delegation will stick to the glue which has been spread over the piece of paper which is now called the Berlin question...
...Candidate Truman was most infuriated by Candidate Tom Dewey's refusal to take his bait and get into a slugging match with...
...nation's annual plague of grasshoppers was beginning early last week in Mississippi, where the hoppers were crunching through corn and cotton fields, eating everything in sight except the evilest-tasting weeds. Farmers were fighting them in an approved modern manner: with bait of wheat bran flavored with white arsenic...
Such tasty bait as this, Wall Streeters hoped, would sooner or later lure in the public. They had some pious arguments in favor of it: a big bull market, for one thing, would not only fatten brokers' commissions, but would permit industry to raise some of the capital, through stock issues, that it badly needs for expansion. One simple recipe, favored by both Schram and Truslow to attract more investors: cut margins...