Word: lured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about eight o'clock smoke was sighted, and in due course three Italian cruisers and some destroyers were made out. Two, if not all three of these, were 8-in. gun cruisers, and our game was if possible to lure them, together with their supporting force, on to our battle fleet, then a considerable distance away. During this phase they were firing steadily but not at a high rate of fire, and at first they were getting a number of salvos over as well as short. We made a few small turns towards and away to throw out their...
...Conquered. Economist Brandt believes that Germans use food to control civilians in German-occupied Europe as they do at home, but that the weapon does not work so efficiently because the machinery is new. To lure skilled workmen to German factories, rations in Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian, French manufacturing centres are cut, increased in German towns. The amount of food that reaches the public is determined, not by the supply, but according to Nazi strategy. The British blockade, he believes, can not halt the Nazi war machine. He concludes that food will not win the war. "The Nazi machine will...
...drives will be pointedly omitted. This time no church bells will toll as a "dirge for slackers"; no "four-minute men" will yell at pedestrians through megaphones; no persistent Boy Scouts will push doorbells; no grisly posters will scare moppets. This time the Treasury will avoid high-pressure salesmanship, lure savings by a simple but fast-moving patriotic appeal. Some details...
...ASCAP last week aired a batch of Cole Porter music on a Tums Pot o' Gold program. On hand was Porter himself, who made a speech defending ASCAP's position in its war with B. M. I. One purpose of the show: to find out whether the lure of ASCAP music would attract more listeners in Manhattan than the networks (vowed to B. M. I. tunes) could entice. This week ASCAP will continue its test, guest-starring Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. On the national front, meanwhile, ASCAP will put on a weekly hour-long coast-to-coast program...
...Scot, Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, took his Eastern Mediterranean Fleet on a thoroughgoing sweep of Mare Nostrum (the R. N. calls it "Cunningham's Pond"). All around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel on which Brindisi is the spur. In that instep, in the great naval base of Taranto, lay the bulk...