Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickets to a special bond rally will be given to all college men who buy bonds before September 28 from the War Service Committee's representatives in the three civilian Houses. Harvard's quota in the Tihr War Loan...
Although some of the other girls drew more gallery whistles, the decorum-conscious judges chose decorous Miss California, 19-year-old Jean Bartel of Los Angeles, as Miss America 1943. (Cash value of the title: $10,000 in lipstick endorsements, war-bond prizes, theatrical engagements, etc.) Of the ten finalists, she shared with Miss Minnesota the distinction of being tallest (5 ft. 8 in.), heaviest (130 lb.), and possessor of the biggest feet (8B). She tied for the biggest bust (36 in.). But she had the dignity the judges were after, proved it by posing an hour and a half...
Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, sure that his state could outsell all others in the new War Bond drive, wrote a put-up-or-shut-up letter to all other governors, wagered "one beautiful, big, corn-fed Nebraska hog." Governor Homer Adkins of Arkansas promptly threw into the kitty one white-faced Arkansas calf...
...Vienna and Berlin, appeared in one UFA film. In 1927 Adolph Zukor signed up Pola Negri and Lukas as a potential team. When Lukas arrived in the U.S. with his bride (small, blonde Gisella Benes, to whom he is still married), he was required to post a $500 bond. It was not until five years later that he collected his bond from the Government. Lukas thought the $500 was an admission...
...Polo Grounds last week, a three-ring baseball circus sponsored by the New York Journal-American climaxed a three-month War Bond drive and pitched a whopping $800,000,000 into the U.S. Treasury. From Broadway and Hollywood came Irving Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Galloway, Carole Landis to entertain the bond-buying fans; later a crack Army team played a combination of Dodger-Giant-Yankee favorites (chosen by a summer-long tabulation of individual "performance points" and popularity votes cast by fans, as part-of the war's most elaborate bond-raising scheme...