Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dazzled, Mrs. Hubert said firmly: "It hasn't changed my routine of living and it isn't going to. I've had a car and a good life before." Then, settling down to counting her winnings, Mrs. Hubert decided to keep: a $1,000 U.S. savings bond; a man's and woman's wardrobe, each valued at $1,500; a year's supply of candy, flowers, shaving lotion and cologne; free haircuts for five years; a $1,200 living room suite; a $1,000 radio-phonograph-television set; two complete fishing outfits; enough paint...
...recommendations promptly brought criticism from some bankers. They objected to any increase in centralization and wanted to keep bond operations in the hands of the Federal Open Market Committee. Said ex-President Hoover, who has had long experience with both businessmen and bureaucrats: "By the time it is all over, we expect an aggregate of 100% of those affected to resist reforms...
...seated. Vag carefully centered the blotters on the desk top, blew the dust off the top of the inkwell, and scratched his head. Oh yes, the foolscap, Rushing down to the corner, holding his pants up with one hand, he piked up his tuxedo and 100 sheets of watermarked bond. Cleaned and pressed they were; he piled them on his bed, but placed a whisk broom drawer , brought out and unlocked a small steel case, and took from it 12 carefully sharpened pencils. He left the cuff links in the bottom and relocked the case. He was ready to begin...
Into Battle. The Young approach, among other things, got Gloucester County to float a $750,000 bond issue to improve conditions in Negro schools, and persuaded Norfolk to pay the same salaries to Negro and white schoolteachers. On only a few occasions has the Guide used the frontal attack. After a Negro was convicted of raping a white woman and condemned to death, the Guide decided he was innocent. It defied local custom by printing the woman's name. A white man read the story, gave testimony that proved the case was a frame...
Propaganda. In Vidette, Ark., half the voters had to wade knee-deep across a water-flooded highway bridge before they reached the polling place to vote on a state bond issue for highway improvement...