Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gimbels' Bargain Basement looked festive. The counters were gone, the merchandise out of sight. Between the mirrored pillars long tables were set for midnight supper: hot dogs, doughnuts, popcorn, coffee. Some 750 New Yorkers were there to bid, with war bond pledges, on such precious items as Thomas Jefferson's Bible, a letter written by George Washington...
...banker that Henry Morgenthau can in fact control the huge spending and borrowing machine he has created. Back in the '30s the theory was that it did not matter how much the Treasury spent or borrowed. Now, with the country's resources employed all-out, every bond bought by the banks feeds the inflation fire...
...answer to the Crimson's cries for cooperation we sent in a few suggestions for mastheads which they probably won't use, but the Navy came through, anyhow. Of course the $25 bond will still be accepted in Box C24 Chase, along with all other scoops and queries...
Thrashing their way through the hundred-odd titles suggested by far-flung enthusiasts for the new serviceman's weekly, harrassed Crimson editors finally came up for breath last night, with the winning title for the paper, and the name of the reciplent of a $25 war bond...
...Reverend Mr. Frederic B. Kellog, rector of Christ Church, will go a war bond. The winning title which will top the new paper beginning with today's issue is HARVARD SERVICE NEWS, characterized, in the author's words, as a name that is "subtle" but not "too flashy...