Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Windfall. In Somers, N.Y., when a pilotless fighter plane crashed near the home of William H. Lasdon, chairman of the local war-bond drive, he and his committee promptly got to work on the gathering crowd, within an hour had $48,000 in pledges...
...Treasury's 19 advertising and promotion men under able, talkative Max B. Cook, of Scripps-Howard, had done their dazzling best to coax, lure, bewitch, shove, smash and plaster U.S. citizens into buying $15 billion in war bonds. Promoter Cook and staff used every trick in the bag - and thought up new ones. Audaciously they even had Secretary Morgenthau wangle a bond plug from Joseph Stalin (". . . help the joint efforts of the Allies to achieve victory" - see p. 36). Their goal this time: the "little man," as most war bonds thus far have been bought by corporations, banks, insurance...
...seven had vowed to live on shipwreck rations until Oregon made its $104 million war-bond quota. But Oregon stuck fast at 62%, with $40 million to go. The raft-sitters got no pity. Small boys on the river bank tauntingly waved hot dogs and ice-cream cones at them. Older folks heckled: "Why aren't you fellows at work?" Said one morose raft-sitter: "We'll stay here till Hell freezes over if it helps sell bonds. But if not, we want to know. We're sure ready...
Joseph Stalin suddenly got a patter of backslaps from a number of thoughtful U.S. citizens: two men in swampy Vermilion Parish, La. took out a $25 war bond in his name, planned to send it to him; the residents of Newton, Mass, sent $1,300 worth of bonds to him "and the Russian people"; and 76-year-old S. Kent Costikyan, Manhattan's rug king, proposed in a letter to the New York Times that somebody give him some sort of honorary degree...
Tall, casual Archie, who won the Croix de guerre in World War I, stuck to his Wall Street bond business, worried about Government extravagance, watched Daughter Theodora kick up her heels as a professional dancer and son Archie Jr. kick up his as an American Youth Congress leader. Archie Sr. finally enlisted. He landed in New Guinea with the 41st Division. Last week he was heard from...