Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boost tottering War Bond sales among Harvard undergraduates, Hollywood's Deanna Durbin has volunteered to send a letter and autographed picture to the student who buys the most bonds and stamps next week...
...April 12, said Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, the U.S. Treasury will begin an outsize financing campaign even bigger than last December's huge war-bond drive. The goal this time: $13 billion, $4 billion more than in December...
More to Come. This is only the beginning. Before next month's end one of the greatest single advertising campaigns ever undertaken will be launched by hundreds of advertisers in all fields: a new drive, coordinated by the Advertising Council, for war bond sales. Its probable goal: conversion of 15% of all pay checks into war bonds. Moreover, within the next few weeks newspapers and magazines will sprout scores of ads aimed straight at the hearts of the nation's newest wartime problems. Food companies, for example, will devote increasing amounts of space to easily understood explanations...
...binder to hold men together. The belief in the dignity of man, of all men, is in itself a primary protection against the perfidies of the war of nerves, a check against the regimentation of domestic life, a guarantee against life's waste in war. It is the bond between the drawings of the engineer and the unformed hope of the man in the street; it is the force that overcomes the bickerings of allies, the conflicts of national prestige; it is the measure of U.S. responsibility for shaping the future. It is inescapable. Says Russell Davenport: "Cain never...
Beading its nearest competitor by a cool $90, Kirkland House bond sales for the past week totalled $240.40, while Winthrop was runner-up with $152.75. Adams ranked third of the Houses with $97.60, Lowell next with $26.15; while Dunster and Eliot occupied the lowest rungs of the bond sales ladder with $22.35 and $18.75 respectively. Leverett was not totalled...