Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money arrived that clerks worked overtime to acknowledge them, had no time left to tot them up. One man sent $100 he had won at a movie bank night. A hairdresser sent an entire day's receipts: $200. Most frequent message: "Merry Christmas to Uncle Sam." > Defense-bond sales jumped as much as 8,691% in one city, soon forced some post offices and banks to turn customers away until more bonds could be printed (see p.53...
Chicago: London, when war was declared in 1939, was nothing like this. Recruiting centers are jammed, 400,000 Chicago women have applied for defense work, 100,000 have enlisted at the Red Cross. Flags broke out all over the Loop and outskirts...defense-bond sales up 75%....Unity came here with the roar of a bombing plane....The rush of volunteers 13 times greater than at any time since World War I....Enrollment for civilian defense duty 100,000; goal set for 250,000 to cover the city's 10,000 blocks...
...bond market took fright briefly too. Traditionally stable U.S. Government bonds (which rarely move more than ¼ point daily), dropped so fast that it took joint Treasury Department-Federal Reserve System buying to stop the rout. As usual, Treasury officials refused to say how many bonds they had bought. But the Federal Reserve weekly report showed that 16 member banks had bought $38,000,000 in "Governments," thus boosting total holdings to $3,378,000,000-a new high record. The tactic was successful, since the bonds were above par at week's end. Cracked one dealer in Governments...
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...Thanks to C.N.A.C.'s Bond for corrections on carrying war materials and on the name of the pilot who flew a spare DC2 wing (no other being available) to the hiding place of a crippled DC-3. But for staid and home-loving people iron-tough Operative Bond and his mates certainly do run a wild & woolly airline...