Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fisherman in The Arabian Nights, Detroit's Federal Judge Frank A. Picard had unwittingly let the terrifying genie of portal-to-portal pay out of the bottle. By last week, as union claims swelled up to a terrifying $5 billion, Judge Picard set valiantly to work to lure the genie back in-or at least cut him down to a manageable size...
...fast-ascending skyrocket. What once passed for friendly "amateur" sport can no longer escape the commercial aroma of its play-for-play brethren, whose breeding grounds must still exist upon the college and school level. Rather than set themselves up in some ivory academic tower, colleges have let the lure of lucre seep down among them, and have usually welcomed with open arms such money-making orgies as the fast-multiplying bowl games on New Year...
...idealism is also a corpse kicked around by the Clubs--tolerated in an otherwise vigorous community because of their aversion to the light of day--who lure congenial men into the fundamental mis-conception that race, religion and "family" determine a person's intelligence, integrity or his sociability...
...Christmas lull, department stores slashed prices as much as 75% on hundreds of items. Examples: in Seattle, Sears, Roebuck sold $9.95 kitchen tables for $1.98; in Philadelphia, Snellenburg's cut prices on men's, suits from $27.50 to $18.71. In many cases even drastic cuts failed to lure buyers. Sellers hoped that the lull was temporary. Buyers hoped that their turn had finally come...
Christmas trees were sparse in London (those with a diameter of more than 2¼ inches rated as timber and required a special license from the timber control authorities), and it took considerable conniving to lure a plum pudding out of the grocer, but the children's toy supply had improved. For English members of the bureau like June Rose, the season offered an additional prospect: "The whole family is finally demobilized, and we'll sit around the fire together in civilian clothes for the first time since...