Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publisher of the Bulletin, Hamlen says he is constantly afraid that some big national magazine will lure away his editor. All of the past several editors could have gotten a job with virtually any magazine they chose, the publisher explains, and he extends this statement to the Bulletin's new editor, Norman Hall. And indeed Hall has already shown that he will maintain, if not improve, the Bulletin's "high level of editorial achievement...
...companies have struck uranium, or even worked their claims. Nevertheless, early investors have not lost money. The trick has been to get in on the ground floor of a new issue and then unload at double or triple the price to latecomers. The big lure is that there is uranium in the Colorado Plateau, and in some places, lots of it. All the penny plungers dream of the day when their company makes the big strike-and their penny stocks suddenly are worth dollars...
...Bullion Dealers N. M. Rothschild & Sons, the six men* gave the world its first official free-gold market since the war ended the meetings in the fixing room. The dealers hoped and expected that the move would restore London to its prewar status as the leading gold-trading center, lure business away from such unofficial markets as Paris, Tangiers and Geneva, where the price often varies from city to city...
...lure that the AFL is holding out seems to be some vague kind of "security." Small independent unions cannot bring pressures to bear on employers to secure long-term contracts, they argue. But big, powerful unions with nation-wide influence...
Miami's McGregor Smith, president of Florida Power & Light Co., has one yardstick of the area's growth−and his faith in the future. In the last ten years Smith, who has done as much as any man to lure new industries to Florida, has spent $151 million on expansion, more than doubled the company's capacity to 503,000 kilowatts. In the next ten years, for another $332 million, he expects to triple capacity...