Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shopping was the prime lure. Import duties and local mark-up boost Cuban retail prices from 30% to 50% over U.S. levels. Many a canny Habanero found that he and his wife could buy a year's wardrobe in Miami and save enough to pay the airplane fare ($34.50 round trip) and vacation expenses. Havana merchants groused, but succeeded only in getting Miami stores to leave the prices out of their advertisements in Cuban newspapers...
Goodbye, My Fancy is a reasonably diverting play, raised a notch higher by a smooth production. In her Broadway debut, Cinemactress Carroll is excellent; she catches the lure, the charm, the strong-mindedness demanded by the role. But Goodbye, My Fancy, after a bright beginning, becomes here a little too slick and there a little too slack. Playwright Kanin so much admires the characters with principles that she has no feeling for the characters with problems; she seems both a cardboard crusader and a complacent one. But the very shallowness of the play proves a kind of virtue: the whole...
Around the middle of last February, the big brass at the Yale Athletic Association must have decided that maybe Bill Bingham was right. So they gave up trying to lure Lon Little from the peace and security of Morningside Heights with the aid of a bale of cash, and started looking for a bright young...
...lure more orders, the show had many an improved model of an old machine. Example: International Business...
...lure planned by the Council to get more good men interested in committee work is a Certificate of Merit to be awarded to those few men, who, in the Council's opinion, have done the most outstanding and loyal job in their respective committees...