Word: lures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet pitchblende mining enterprise, I should like to report an additional service . . . performed by these Bergfrauen. In the Russian army, as in the late Wehrmacht, commanding officers are authorized to provide bordellos for their commands . . . This aspect of uranium mining (it is actually published in leaflets, which seek to lure workers to the mines) does not seem to have the desired drawing power, however, so more direct methods for the procurement of labor are resorted...
...Hopes. In issuing the new regulations, Gómez Morales and The Boys hoped to increase Argentine exports by cheapening them in terms of foreign exchange. They also hoped to lure back to Argentina, in the form of imports, some of the estimated $200 to $300 million which prudent Argentines have salted away abroad. In this way a stockpile would be built up in case of a new world war, which the Muchachos complacently expect. To attract more foreign capital investment into the country, restrictions were eased on the transfer of foreign companies' profits abroad, blocked for the past...
...lure the middle-class money into "buying bonds (and thus prove his case), Tucker designed an issue with advantages unheard of in the U.S. The bonds were made wholly taxexempt, given an absolute government guarantee. They could be used at face value in paying taxes, and were acceptable (at 90% of face value) as collateral for Central Reserve Bank loans...
...suited to hot weather. Naturally, it tends to differ from anyone else's peep show, for in recent years nobody has equaled Producer Mike Todd at making burlesque resplendent, respectable and remunerative on Broadway. Of legs and the girl he sings, believing that for many a customer the lure of the female form outranks anything devisable by the human brain. Nonetheless, in show business the human brain can be a help; and Peep Show needs a terrible lot of helping...
...real threat is the existence of women's colleges aye, of women--in Cambridge, who lure Harvard men from their studies at night. The only solution is to make Cambridge another Mt. Athos, and remove all women from the area. The horrible alternative to this policy is that Harvard men should mature sufficiently to work with a free will, as they shall have to work in adult life. David Drake...