Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model for the new bond campaign is the Liberty Bond drives of World War I, when the U. S. raised a spectacular $21,439,000,000 in 24 months. But some tricks of World War I's drives will be pointedly omitted. This time no church bells will toll as a "dirge for slackers"; no "four-minute men" will yell at pedestrians through megaphones; no persistent Boy Scouts will push doorbells; no grisly posters will scare moppets. This time the Treasury will avoid high-pressure salesmanship, lure savings by a simple but fast-moving patriotic appeal. Some details...
...purchasing 10? "Buy for Defense" stamps, even school children can help. These stamps will be sold in 55,000 post offices, 200,000 banks, drugstores, schools and churches. When the buyer has saved $18.75 in stamps, he can exchange them for a baby bond worth $25 in ten years...
...Axis was now eternal, both agreed. Said Benito: "Italy will march with Germany, side by side, to the end." Said Adolf: "I am not a democrat and I am not a bootlicker. . . . Between our two revolutions and between the two men there is an indissoluble bond and we will decide this struggle together...
...McCormick was modulated. But two years later, with the Roosevelt election, the contrast flared sharper than ever: the News boomed Roosevelt and the New Deal; the Tribune screamed at both. They agreed on one thing: the need for a Big Navy. Last year Cousins Joe and Bertie found another bond: they agreed on appeasing Japan and urged Britain to settle with Germany on the "best terms possible...
...exile, birthplace of Ulysses. Thanks to influential friends (especially in the U. S. embassy), he finally procured a visa from Vichy. But the Swiss Government was fussier. At one point it refused to admit Joyce on the claim that he was a Jew. Then it demanded a $7,000 bond. The mayor of Zurich got the sum reduced to $3,500, which some Swiss friends got together. But on the day the Swiss entrance visa arrived, the French exit visa expired...