Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ties that long bound the Dominion to Mother England's apron had frayed and snapped, one by one. Of the legal strings, only one remained: in civil lawsuits, Britain's Privy Council is still Canada's court of final appeal. And elimination of that last bond was already in process...
Canada has always been grateful for help from Hollywood stars in publicizing its war-bond drives. Some months ago it engraved "Canada Thanks You" on some freshly-coined nickels, punched a hole in each, and sent them off with bread-&-butter notes. Subsequently, bracelets of the plugged nickels turned up on the wrists of some of Hollywood's most fashionable women...
Year's lowest 18-hole stroke average: Byron Nelson's 68.33, good for 19 pro golf tourney wins and an unprecedented $66,600 in war-bond prizes (an A.P. poll named him "athlete of the year" over the Army's Fullback Doc Blanchard and Detroit's 25-game-winning Pitcher Hal Newhouser...
Unfortunately the Navy didn't have time to send many of these men through midshipmen's schools or even to indoctrinate them, at first. So these junior executives, bond salesmen, tie clerks and miscellaneous experts in their early 30s were commissioned as lieutenants junior grade or even full lieutenants. They donned uniforms, and it was hoped that some day they would see fit and be able to carry out the duties of an officer in the U.S. Navy. Many filled the bill; some, to the eventual discredit of the Navy, never...
Miss America (The Bronx's Bess Meyerson, 21) got a gallery-eye view-of the U.S. Senate, which also got a look at her and applauded her bond-selling achievements'. Tennessee's sulphurous old Senator Kenneth McKellar, 76, got something extra before she left: a patriotic buss...