Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PHILIP Morris is flirting with the idea of putting a new filter-tip cigarette on the market. The lure: booming sales of filter cigarettes, which account for about 2% of all cigarette sales and are expanding fast...
...accomplishment. The experience made him skeptical of such highfalutin motives for spelunking as the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of a nation's natural resources by discovering underground rivers for hydroelectric power. Holes and caves, Tazieff concluded, seduce speleologists with that most tempting of bait, "the lure of the unknown...
...last, Agriculture Secretary Benson handed Nixon a penknife, and the Vice President liberated Hagerty by cutting a slit in his trousers. Nixon announced that the lure, formerly known as the "Hula Diver," would henceforth be called the "Hagerty Snag...
...fishing lure held up a Cabinet meeting in the White House last week. Just after the pre-meeting prayer, Vice President Nixon broke in to say that the day was an important anniversary: one year before, the Republican National Convention in Chicago had nominated for President "the best fisherman for votes the country has ever had." As Nixon finished his brief speech. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and Presidential Assistant C. D. Jackson set before the President an anniversary gift from the Cabinet and the White House staff: two dozen assorted fishing lures mounted on velvet. A bass lure with...
...reason for this is an amendment to the 1951 U.S. tax law. To lure engineers, construction workers and other skilled hands to work on economic-development programs overseas, Congress generously exempted from income taxes any U.S. citizen who spends 17 out of 18 consecutive months abroad. (Not included: Government personnel.) While the 18-month clause was not written with film folk in mind, the stars quickly discovered...