Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoner of war, and he carries his broken neck in a leather brace because a Jap soldier hit him with a rifle butt. But Alfred C. Oliver is also a chaplain. Last week, speaking at a Cincinnati bond drive, Colonel Oliver said of the Japs: "These inhuman men starve you to death and work you to death and beat you unmercifully while they are doing...
...beat, and his Boy Scoutmastering. He became a crack combat correspondent, got out the first story of the landing on Tarawa-and was threatened with court-martial for writing that "something suddenly appeared to have gone wrong." He covered eight Marine landings, then was sent home on a war-bond tour...
...Government's National War Finance Committee, blushing with embarrassment, suddenly withdrew from circulation a poster with which it had been plugging Victory Bond sales. On a facsimile of a bond, a grudging artist had squiggled in minuscule script: "The Government of the Dominion of Canada [two illegible words] have gone too far to be of any good use [ten illegible words...
...Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House has announced its final Victory Bond Drive, extending from October 24 to December S. Special feature of the present drive is the new $200 Roosevelt Memorial Bond, pictured on the posters currently displayed on many bulletin boards...
...charge of this bond-selling campaign is Austin L. Wyman '4S, chairman of the War Service Committee...