Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Alvin York, in Knoxville to present awards at an Open War Bond Golf Tournament, made a prediction: "After April 15, Germany will be out of the war within 60 days...
...people of Cali (pop. 125,000) had long complained about the rates and service of the Compania Colombiana de Electricidad, subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share. Last week they began a general strike which spread until the whole city was tied up. Troops were called out, but there was no disorder, no sign of anti-U.S. sentiment. After two days the municipal authorities capitulated, agreed to expropriate the local company, pay for it with a special bond issue...
...Electric Bond and Share has similarly vulnerable plants in Barranquilla, Palmira, Buga, Honda...
...Crooks won the $100 war-bond prize for rechristening the Phillies. Among the 5,698 other suggestions were Daisies and Stinkers. The editors and the student council were indignant. Athletic teams of Johns Hopkins have been known as the Blue Jays for 68 years...
Simply everybody was in Florida, it seemed. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. escaped easily, returned to Washington with tan and plans for the next War Bond Drive. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague kept an eye on the horses at Hialeah. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly popped in & out again. Ex-Ambassadors Joe Davies and Joe Kennedy were at their Palm Beach houses, as was ex-Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Grover Whalen was down for a couple of weeks. President Alfonso López of Colombia suddenly left for home when he heard that the Colombian...