Word: bond
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Died. Jessie Bond, 89, last but one of the original Savoyards,* player of numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles (including Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance) ; in Worthing, England. She retired in 1896. Only surviving Savoyard: Durward Lely of Glasgow...
...Baseball Defense Bond Day, 3,722 Scouts delivered 260,939 pieces of Treasury Department literature in 121 baseball stadiums...
...huge Cleveland plant boosted production 17% in the first month of its War Production Committee. At Westinghouse's Pittsburgh plant, 48 of the first 500 worker suggestions for better production were good enough to be put into use. Prime Westinghouse ballyhoo scheme (besides cash or war-bond prizes for good ideas, which are common to almost all wardrive committees): dividing the workers into production teams, each with a "squadron flag" that flies with the Stars & Stripes when the team is ahead of schedule...
...Hell, I'm 60, but I don't feel or look older than I did 20 years ago." When the Navy sent a check for $1,100, three months' pay, the Geismans bought a defense bond with it, in their son's name. The second Navy telegram read: killed or taken prisoner. But they have not given up hope...
...Bond Backers. In Rouses Point, N.Y., the village government decided not to levy any taxes, urged the villagers to buy war bonds instead. In St. Louis, Dr. Ladislaus M. Ottofy urged his patients to do the same thing, canceled more than $10,000 in debts owing him, retired...