Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nominated in the Bond. In Paris, Tenn., Earl Underbill, in jail for auto stealing, and Robert Jackson, in jail for forgery, offered to marry the first two girls who would put up $3,000 bail fof their release...
...hustling in the hustings, there was still a virgin market in at least one big city. The 1949 consumer survey made by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press reported that 90% of St. Paul citizens in top salary brackets had never bought a share of stock or a corporation bond...
...bringing pressure in Washington to cut down imports of foreign oil. Faced with that possibility, Alberta's producers have had to consider alternatives. One might be to pipe the oil from Regina to Port Arthur (see map). Another might be to carry oil to Duluth by pipeline under bond, then ship it by tanker to industrial cities in eastern Canada...
...years after World War II, Whitney itself began to show alarming signs of going modern. Young soldiers came home, got into politics and began to run the town. They put through bond issues for new water and sewer systems, for paving and lighting the streets. Construction of the vast Whitney Dam began on the nearby Brazos River and new people thronged in. A hundred new houses were built...
Into a small, smart shop on London's Bond Street strolled two women. One was a $24-a-week typist, the other a peeress. In turn, each one plunked down 49 shillings ($9.80), and walked out smiling with a new pair of Joyce playshoes. In similar shops in Manhattan and Melbourne, Los Angeles and Lima, Sydney and Santiago, other women were doing the same thing last week. In a single day, in eight countries around the world, some 16,000 pairs of Joyce shoes are sold...