Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...check "on account" front Boston was enough to buy a $100 war bond, a new suit, and pay off the $3 which his steady girl friend, Sue Summer, had been obliged to advance for their ticket to the senior prom...
...roomful of crackling wartime caricatures - tures-Axis in Agony - went on the auc tion block in Manhattan this week to boost bond sales. The drawings were the work of topnotch Commercial Artist Boris Artzybasheff, who did them originally as Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. advertise ments. Most of Caricaturist Artzybasheff's 32 imaginative, humorous, smoothly competent wash drawings show the Axis coming out second best against U.S. industrial might. In Artzybasheff's fancy: ¶A crisscross pattern of steel wire becomes a cage for three hoary, gaping primates with the faces of Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo...
...chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., now president of the New York Stock Ex change, took a fall out of those beaters of anti-inflation drums (such as Marriner Stoddard Eccles) who want to balk rising stock prices by increasing the present 25% capital gains tax. He told the Bond Club of Philadelphia that...
Coats cost from $12 to $25, suits about the same or a little more. Wool dresses cost $10 to $25. These were price ranges for strictly utility wear which could be found without too much hunting. Glamor could be found only in the Bond Street (London's Fifth Avenue) or Grosvenor Street shops, which specialize in French models -and glamor was expensive last week...
...Bond Street dressmakers were offering afternoon dresses from $100. But shoppers who ordered their dresses last week would not be able to wear them until September. Several of the better tailoring firms have advertised in the personal column of the Times, regretting that they cannot accept orders for the next six months...