Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During March and April cash-in of bonds hit a new high, sales were the lowest since November 1942. Over $450,000,000 worth of bonds were cashed in. At that rate, three months' redemptions equal nearly one month's purchases. Thus, on the eve of invasion, Americans at home were backing the attack by taking three steps forward, one back...
...eve of invasion, Allied air commanders were well aware of the giant power under their control. They knew well what it could...
...fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy played second fiddle so well that he was soon solo violinist of the original Roxy Gang. He graduated from gangdom when the Capitol's chief conductor fell ill on the eve of a performance. Ormandy, the only musician in the place who knew the Tchaikovsky score by heart, took over on 15 minutes' notice. It was the first time in his life that he had ever conducted...
These pictures are evidence that on the apparent eve of Invasion the American people had not lost interest in the problems of more-or-less-normal living. In the center, "General" Jacob S. Coxey, leader of the famed Coxey's Army of 1894, addresses the national convention of Hoboes of America, Inc. Meeting over a Washington saloon, the hoboes solemnly discussed the decay of youthful morals, wanderlust, the curse of the Machine Age, non-interest-bearing bonds...
...long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...