Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torch Carrier. In Eiseldorf, Germany, Farmer's Daughter Agnes Schwimmbeck, questioned about setting fire to her father's barn and farmhouse, confessed that she loved a member of the local volunteer fire brigade, wanted to lure him to the farm...
...lure away the vultures that are ever present in Kano, even on the tree-shaded grounds of Kano's Central Hotel, carrion had been dumped outside the city, and by the time the royal visitors flew in last week scarcely a bird could be seen. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, representing their niece, Queen Elizabeth, were on their way to Kaduna to attend the biggest durbar (homage to princes) in northern Nigeria's history...
...five or six stocks at a time, Darvas often studies one for weeks or months before buying. He steers away from blue chips, buys only growing companies. "I am only in infant industries where earnings could double or treble," he says. "The biggest factor in stock prices is the lure of future earnings. The dream of the future is what excites people, not the reality...
...wheels gave better balance and road ability. Equally important, says Knudsen, "it gives people something to talk about. They can see it and they can understand it." Where the average age of previous Pontiac buyers was around 45, today's buyer is between 30 and 35. Another sales lure: Knudsen cut the price of expensive models, held the line on the lower-priced models, so that Pontiac's top-selling Catalina costs less than a Chevrolet Impala...
...increased by 34%, the next year by another 19%. Other companies, such as General Motors (which has had two splits since 1946), feel that every stockholder is a potential customer or an unpaid salesman and publicity man; therefore the price of the stock should be kept low enough to lure buyers...