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Word: lures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painful as that of parting," said Mao. Twenty thousand regimented schoolchildren cried: "Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers!" Yet for Red China, the Peking conference had turned out to be an unexpected failure. Quoting eagerly from Nehru's own anti-Western statements, the Communists had tried to lure Nehru into an anti-Western collective security pact; Nehru had proved "not too enthusiastic." The conference, trumpeted in advance as a milestone of history, produced no final communique and only one scrap of agreement: Red China could run an airline into India; India could extend its present air service 80 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Unexpected Failure | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

With these words, Pakistan's vigorous young (45) Premier Mohammed Ali last week announced a new policy to lure U.S. money to his struggling young (7) country. To an audience of U.S. businessmen in Manhattan, Ali sounded a dramatic new note from Asia, whose newly independent governments, still resentful of colonialism's old wrongs and jealous of their new independence, have made things tough for Western investors. Most have heavily taxed foreign businesses, limited their profits, refused to let even those profits out of the country, and demanded majority control of companies built wholly by foreign money. Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Tea Is Not Enough | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Textile workers worried about unemployment, and Governor Cross had made no practical attempts to lure new industry to Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Remember Maine | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...offer from Republic, even though it might bring doom to the town of Follansbee. Last week Richmond made an offer of his own to the town: he would pay a full year's salary for an executive secretary if the townspeople would form a promotional organization to lure new industry to Follansbee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tycoon (j.g.) | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...EXPORTERS will get help from the Government to lure new accounts. The Export-Import Bank set up a credit plan so that exporters can give foreign customers up to five years to pay for agricultural and industrial capital goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 20, 1954 | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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