Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special sale of War Bonds and Stamps at the U. T. last night one anonymous benefactor offered to buy a $1000 Bond if the rest of the audience would buy $1000 between them. The quota was quickly reached, bringing the total to $2400 in ten minutes...
Last week, $421.10, only $62 less than the total of the intensive drive two weeks ago, was netted in War Stamp sales throughout the Houses and the commuters' center. Not included in this total but not to be forgotten is the $75 Bond purchased by an Eliot House...
Long before last week the Treasury bond campaign had become one of the liveliest phenomena of the American scene. Bonds were sold by tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes...
Cheesecake Did It. Bathing beauties did it. Big, beautiful eyes and slim, wonderful legs did it. The supreme Empress of Cheesecake, the very Marlene Dietrich herself, last week was fittingly crowned by the Treasury as the champion bond seller of all. On three cross-country trips she upped the pulses and unsnapped the purses of thousands of U.S. males. At Cleveland's General Electric plant, when Worker Edward LaCuoco signed away 10% of his pay for the duration, Miss Dietrich rewarded him with a long cine-kiss (see cut). Mr. LaCuoco said it was worth...
...Harvard's all-out effort was concerned. Also, it was announced, that because Dunster, Kirkland, Eliot and Winthrop have been handicapped by a shortage of canvassers, the pledge drive will continue in these Houses during this week. Pledges will still be available in all Houses at the stamp and bond table, on the regular sales...