Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, in distinguished company (see cut), cut a ribbon with a huge pair of wooden shears, thereby turning Fifth Avenue into the "Avenue of the Allies." ¶ At a Chicago war-plant rally, Dancer Juanita Rios sold the nylons off her shapely legs for $1,500 in bonds (see cut). In Greensboro, N.C., one pair of nylons brought $25,000 without benefit of legs. ¶ In Hollywood "Prince" Mike (Harry Gerguson) Romanoff, proprietor of a fashionable movie-colony restaurant, offered a free case of Scotch (any brand) to each $10,000 bond purchaser, sold a case...
Money from Heaven. Lest the Government be accused of directly subsidizing procreation, there were limits. Families with more than four children would get a little less than the basic allowances. Benefits for the fifth child would be $1 less than the basic allowance, $2 less for the sixth and seventh children, $3 less for the eighth and all the rest. But a paragon who had sired 15 children in 16 years would still be able to draw $816 a year from the treasury. By July 1, 1946 the Dionnes would draw $420 for the quintuplets alone...
...Allies also had supply trouble. The Fifth and Eighth had moved too fast for their food and munitions...
Same Old Enemy. Japs are funny people. We learned later what had happened to our northern landing forces. The first three waves got in all right with light artillery opposition. But the Japs-for some reason known only to them-waited for the fourth and fifth waves. On them they laid a murderous barrage, both on the reef and on the beaches. A young battalion operations officer who had come by my room and waved, "See you on the beach," had his head blown off just before he reached that beach. "He got it quick," said his best friend...
...Treasury soft-pedaled the matter. But it was no secret in the radio industry that there had been too much personal publicity for stars, too many unfulfilled bond pledges. In the Fifth War Bond Drive, all concerned were determined to handle radio appeals in a more impersonal and conservative fashion...