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Rats! In St. Louis, William O. Buettner of the National Pest Control Association revealed the best way to catch rats: bait the trap with porterhouse steak...
...fast columns closed in on the Dnieper's underbelly, one threatening to trap large German forces in the Dnieper bend, the other advancing toward the city of Kherson, formerly a big submarine-building base...
...Chicago, Marshall Field & Co. cooked up a new scheme to get workers in time for the Christmas crush. In a big "Job Trailer," Field's employment office began junketing around Chicago's suburbs, trying to trap no-experience, part-or-fulltime, now-or-later applicants for "425 different Christmas jobs...
...hexed Brewster Aeronautical Corp., which has sandbagged four presidents in 16 months, last week finished off a fifth. Hoarse-voiced, 275-lb. Frederick Riebel Jr., after seven months of falling through trap doors, tripping over wires and hearing noises in the woodwork, gave up and left. The big news was his successor. Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, who has been Brewster's board chairman since March, went...
...Axis agents laid a trap for her on a South Atlantic crossing with 10,000 U.S. troops aboard. Submarines were waiting, spies in São Paulo, Brazil were prepared to flash word of her exact course when their secret radio station was discovered just in time. The Italian Government was so sure that the trap would work that Rome announced her sinking on the appointed...