Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Wall Street as a corporation lawyer, soon was a partner in the investment-banking firm of Dillon, Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started his own company and made money during the depression by specializing in small stock-&-bond issues while most underwriters piled up deficits waiting in vain for the return of the boom...
Fragile, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson overdid patriotism on a high-pressure war-bond sales tour of 20-odd mining towns in ten days. She sold $10 million in war bonds but wound up exhausted in a Washington hospital. Earl Haig, 24, son of the British World War I commander, turned up as a prisoner of war in Italy. Feather-haired, candy-faced Hinda Wassau, veteran stripteuse, swore she was going to join the WAACs. "I don't want to hold any office," she said. "I just want to start fresh from scratch." Cinedirector Cecil B. DeMille, veteran showman...
...share their space and time, by copywriters, artists, marketing men and other professionals who give their talent and experience. John Hamilton Morse of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce estimates that more than $30,000,000 worth of white space alone was given to the Government for the bond campaigns in the 18 months through July...
While cries of patriotism were rising to a new crescendo and Dorothy Lamour was in our midst selling War Bonds for victory, the primary elections were considered unimportant. Yesterday's vote was the lightest in recent history. The success of the Bond sales was excellent, but a larger turnout at the polls would have been equally encouraging. For the handling and the management of money that people so willingly contribute to the nation through taxes and bonds is more important than the general reaction shows...
Point No. 2 is a speculator's book of dreams. Nobody knows how long it will take to break up the utility holding companies, who will buy the underlying operating companies or how much they will pay. An example of the dream possibilities is Electric Bond & Share (with five associate companies and over 40 subsidiaries) which the SEC wants to break up. But before E.B. & S. can do so, it must collect $27,925,000 due from its affiliate Electric Power & Light (which has nine subsidiaries); and E.P. & L. must collect the money from its subsidiary United Gas (which...