Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sucker. In Salt Lake City, Sally McClurg, 11, lugged 1,875 pennies to school to buy a War Bond, confessed she had saved her pennies day by day since May 1943 when she swore off lollipops...
...guarded U.S. military secret of the war, last week had its first public showing. Anybody with 30? could have a look through it at Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry (see cut), anybody at all could see it free behind a rope at a Wall Street War Bond show. But not even a spying engineer could learn much from this glimpse. The instrument, which contains some 2,000 parts and costs nearly $10,000, is so complex that, although a number of the sights have fallen into enemy hands, its inventors are confident that enemy technicians...
First Step. Some three weeks ago, the French Government made its first cautious attempt to curb this inflation by sopping up some of the currency, much of it in the hands of war profiteers and black marketeers. The Government floated a bond issue, bid for this cash by a "gentleman's agreement" not to ask where a buyer's money came from. Last week, the Government hailed the bond issue as a "success," and DeGaulle pleaded that it be turned into a "triumph," after 150 billion francs' worth had been subscribed...
...underground lived and grew. It was a functioning government. It passed laws, issued decrees, floated a bond issue inside Poland. It sentenced men to death, and carried out the sentences. It paid salaries-Karski got 450 zloty a month. Its soldiers got veterans' rights and pensions. Its schools trained children who were being systematically debauched by the Germans...
Harvard has begun its War Bond and Stamp campaign in conjunction with the government's Sixth War Loan Drive, aided by an unusual U. S. Navy exhibit which opened yesterday at Hunt Hall. The display entitled "How Photographic Interpretation Reveals the Enemy's Secrets," is directed by American Defense Harvard Group, with the cooperation of the Women's Division of the Cambridge War Finance Committee...