Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ingrid Bergman, passing through Manhattan on a war bond tour, said her next stop was Minnesota where "if I can't sell bonds in English. I'll sell them in Swedish." She divulged that she had dreamed for two and a half years of a Schrafft's hot fudge sundae, found they were no longer served because of the war. She planned to see Mae West's Catherine Was Great on Broadway, explained: "I want to see if there's anything I can learn from her. It may come in handy sometime...
...Presidential Battle Page," offering the Democratic and Republican parties equal campaign space in side-by-side columns, was a top feature. Three weeks ago the Daily News started the page again, as usual saying the lid was off, and asking only that combatants accompany libelous material with an indemnity bond. For 17 days the battle raged...
...fighter is the type of plane in which U.S. civilians will want to fly their families around in the postwar air. So, at least, Popular Science Monthly decided last week after scanning 3,345 light-plane designs in its postwar-plane contest. This winning design (prize: $1,000 war bond) was drafted by Donald J. Wheeler of Seattle, Boeing Aircraft Co. engineer. Wheeler expects private plane buyers will want a four-passenger ship with a speed of at least 130 m.p.h., a range of 500 miles, priced from $1,500 to $3,500. Two surprising facts: designers, in the main...
...years Government officials have lectured the railroads on the subject of debt, have rarely missed a chance to prod them toward faster bond retirement. Last week came the long-suffering railroads' turn. In a tax-plan letter to Congressman Daniel A. Reed (R., N.Y.), the Association of American Railroads politely proposed that Government retire 1% of its debt per year. In this way, suggested the association-whose members have cut their debt $1.4 billion in four years-the expected $300 billion postwar debt can be liquidated in 100 years...
...Worth & Denver City Railroad, practicing golf in the evenings, before the depression knocked him out of a job. In 1932, he made his first professional golf tour and earned exactly $12.50. This year, with his average of 3.85 strokes a hole, he has picked up #39,875 in war-bond prizes, worth $29,906.25 in cash...