Word: lures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kick the furniture. He had been brought to Manhattan to be music director of a new "World's Fair of Music." A 70-piece orchestra, plus such big name help as Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald, Ballet Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, had been signed up to lure lookers and listeners into Grand Central Palace...
...including this iron horse, a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), first U.S. -built locomotive in regular scheduled service. All this was by way of announcing that the railroads are spending an estimated $1 billion in the next two years on new cars and "dreamlined" trains to lure back travelers now riding buses and airlines...
...father, Howard Robard Hughes Sr., was not exactly a nobody, although he came from a place the Ganos had never heard of-Keokuk, Iowa. Son of a Harvard-bred lawyer, he was expelled from several schools, but got through Harvard and hung out his shingle in Joplin, Mo. The lure of oil drew him to Texas. He made a small stake, bought a long Peerless car, met Allene Gano, married...
...scooter-pooper," a noisy lure for bass, built by Alex Woodle of Greenwood, S.C. Little propellers on the lure make a noise. Hollow resonant chambers make it louder. The bass, attracted, bite...
...rainbow trout in Idaho's famed Silver Creek* are big, tough and smart. On still days, under bright sunlight, nothing can lure them up. It is best to wait until a cloud blots out the sun and a breeze ruffles the mirror-like surface. Then the trick is to hang on to the savage rainbows once you've hooked them...