Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home. In Queens, L.I., a man charged with burglary was freed from jail under bond, went home, shortly came back to report that he had so much domestic trouble he preferred jail. He was readmitted. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Anthony Tesco went free after serving a jail term for assaulting his brother-in-law, went to his mother-in-law's house and knocked her off the back porch...
...biggest interest disbursements in U.S. railroad history was announced last week by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: $22,073,408. The sum represented six months' to three years' back interest on nine bond issues owned by some 70,000 B. & O. bondholders. B. & O. was able to fork out the cash because of last year's near-record traffic, which produced $51,442,000 of revenues available for interest...
Voluntary saving is imperative now, and the Treasury's Defense Bond and Stamp plan provides the best outlet for it. Defense bonds are worth-while investments for their purchasers, and essential revenue sources for the war effort. If the maids and janitors can afford to save part of their tiny weekly earnings for bonds and stamps, surely Harvard students can cut out a beer, a movie, or even an occasional date, to prevent inflation and help win the war. The medicine may seem a little bitter, but the patient is very sick...
...Viscount's chic, young (26) wife had her troubles, too. When she appeared at Elizabeth Arden's Bond Street shop to get a shampoo and facial, the manager marched her into a private office and said: "I don't want to embarrass you, but after what happened in Hong Kong there is not a girl here who wants to give you a treatment. You ought to go away before you are insulted. . . ." Viscountess Kano left...
Scheduled to be the last speaker, Mr. Sayre is the son of the High Commissioner of the Philippines, and a grandson of President Wilson. An expert on labor economics here, Dunlop will speak on the economics of the defense bond program...