Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...callings have been ready to make whatever sacrifice the authorities have asked them to make. There has been a hearty response by the American people to the call to fight in the trenches, to meet the perils of death in the service of the destroyers on the deep, to drive rivets in the biting blasts of zero weather, to subscribe to Liberty Bonds, to give to the Red Cross and to count nothing of any value except the winning of the war. The man who thinks that Americans may falter is either a traitor at heart or ignorant...
...this last week of the University's Liberty Loan drive the undergraduates face the problem of subscribing almost twice as much as was turned in by the College in the opening week of the campaign. The amount now needed to fulfill the College's quota of $30,000 is a sum of $19,100. This means that the average subscriptions must be more per day than averaged during the week preceding vacation...
PRINCETON, N. J., APRIL 11.--The Student Liberty Loan Committee at Princeton collected $300 today. This makes the undergraduate subscriptions total $2,950 for the first four days of the drive...
...HAVEN, CONN., APRIL 10.--The undergraduate total for the second day of Yale's Third Liberty Loan Drive was $1,300. In addition to this sum the faculty members have subscribed $3,700. This brings the grand total for the Loan campaign up to $21,500 to date...
...Smooth again. I'm now at 6000 feet, still climbing. Tom is about 5000 feet, but passing directly under me. It's colder than all get-out up here now. So I'll have to put on my glove again and write with my left hand and drive with my right. This can't be done, so I'll stop writing for a minute...