Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven points: 1) heavier taxes; 2) ceilings on prices; 3) wage stabilization; 4) stabilization of farm prices; 5) war-bond sales; 6) rationing of scarce commodities; 7) discouraging buying on credit and encouraging payment of old debts...
...stockmarket they started climbing briskly on greatly increased trading volume. At week's end the senior shares of American & Foreign Power were up two and three points to new 1942 highs (double the year's lows); Electric Power & Light preferreds had jumped five and six points; Electric Bond & Share preferreds were up more than six points; Empire Gas & Fuel 8% preferred topped a phenomenal rise with eight more points to hit 166⅞ - an alltime peak and nearly double the year's low. Not since late 1940 have utility stocks (common or preferred) shown any mildly comparable...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., said today the government must turn to "forced individual savings" to raise urgent war revenue because the voluntary bond purchase program, in which he had much faith, had failed...
Rugged, ambitious Earl Warren made his reputation as the crusading district attorney of Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley and the East Bay waterfront). There, in 13 years, he waged campaigns against bail-bond brokers, liquor-law violators, cleaning & dyeing racketeers, grafting politicians and labor "goon squads...
Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit) is a 27-year-old professional screwball, who once attracted attention by offering a prize to the listener who could think up a new name for him. Now NBC is offering a $500 war bond for the best title for The Show Without a Name. A would-be actor until his parents said no, Moore turned to radio and became a successful wack. Assigned by NBC to an office with H. V. Kaltenborn, he has so far manfully resisted his urge to rearrange the pins in the pundit...