Word: lured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buffalo, where "scamping" (pirating of workers) has become a fine art, foremen make the rounds of war workers' homes, to lure them to new jobs. One plant sent telegrams to another's workmen, offering them all good jobs-sight unseen-at 7:30 next morning. Personnel managers were saying: "the way to get one good man is to hire four because three will quit...
...made Broadway the Great Dark Way. On the East Side zebra-striped El Morocco is open this summer for the first time in its ten-year history, and officers' caps are stacked six deep in the checkroom. At the Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly and bar business is 65% above...
...Lure. For several days before the enemy turned on Hengyang, Major Tex Hill, formerly of the A.V.G., and Major John Allison of Gainesville, Fla., had launched pin-pricking attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and others, all part of a secret and tricky plan of their commander, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, fighting under resourceful Lieutenant General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell, finally led the Jap to get on with his bombing...
...Lure Works. At 1:30 on a moonlit morning the Jap sent over four bombers, and the U.S. pursuit was up to meet them, well south of town...
...college student will have a year or two before he is needed for action. Those years, an impressive total collectively, are not being used most effectively for the war effort. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps are enticing him into the various Reserve plans with every lure known to the press-agent's art. In the shuffie, the physically disqualified man and the co-ed, anxious to serve, have both been ignored. It will require little planning to turn the technical student's training towards the war. Instead, it is the liberal arts concentrator who remains most confused, sensing that...