Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charter change. The Yalta agreement on the veto was considered inviolate. But the U.S., Britain, China and France wanted to issue an "interpretation" of the veto agreement which would go a small way toward meeting the small nations' objections to it. Russia stuck to the letter of the bond...
...sweep, Harry Truman thus: 1) lowered the average age of cabinet members from 59 to 54; 2) gave the cabinet a total of five members from west of the Mississippi; 3) further strengthened the bond between himself and Congress; and 4) put into important Government positions three double-dyed Democrats whose personal loyalty to him was unquestioned (all had worked hard for his nomination as Vice President at Chicago last summer...
...three years knuckle-headed, know-it-all Fibber McGee has been larding his fun program with monthly propaganda plugs-about waste fats, car pools, etc. The funniest part is that the customers like it. Last week Fibber & Molly (Jim & Marion Jordan) pitched their 30th Government plug, a Wistful Vista bond rally; they also edged ahead of Bob Hope again in their neck-&-neck race for program popularity...
...various ways last week the public got behind the drive. In Chicago Musi-comedienne June Havoc auctioned off two pairs of nylons at $1,300 worth of bonds a pair. The three survivors of the six-man detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne...
...Total cost: $35,000. Topside, she bristles with 20-and 40-mm. and five-inch guns, all exactly scaled. Parked on her flight deck are faithfully scaled models of Helldivers, Hellcats, Avengers and Corsairs (donated by the manufacturers). Her innards-which visitors may see if they buy a war bond-contain a model of a carrier's boiler room, a section of enlisted men's quarters complete with pin-up girls on the bulkheads...