Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carole Lombard was in a hurry to get home. For days the movies' best screwball comedienne had been traveling crosscountry patriotically, plugging defense bonds. In Indianapolis she had lent a hand at flag-raisings, jampacked the city's big Cadle Tabernacle for a rally, where she led The Star-Spangled Banner. The blonde actress-who had often said she was glad she was not beautiful-in one day raised $2,000,000. Indianapolis called her Defense Bond Saleslady No. 1. Said plain-spoken Miss Lombard: "I'm like the barker at a carnival...
...costs mount, defense-bond sales to the U.S. citizen will become compulsory-unless he voluntarily buys three to four times the $528,000,000 he did last month...
Trend. In Spokane appeared a patriotic slot machine: when a player hits the jackpot with a quarter the machine plays The Stars & Stripes Forever, an attendant hands him a $25 defense bond...
...realms of farce or horror, The Brothers' situation might have amounted to something. The Corsican brothers are born Siamese twins. After they have been secretly rescued from their parents' burning castle, a friendly 19th-Century medico (H. B. Warner) severs their bond of flesh, dispatches one (Lucien) to live with a family retainer among Corsican bandits, the other (Mario) to Paris in the care of a wealthy, childless couple...
George Herman ("Babe") Ruth walked into Manhattan's defense-bond headquarters, asked for $100,000 worth. Informed that Treasury restrictions let him buy only $50,000 worth a year, he left a $50,000 order...