Word: ribboned
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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...
...history have veterans been so speedily assured of postwar rewards. At the close of the Civil War, Union soldiers were given $50 if they had served two years, $100 for three or more years. Until 1920 Spanish-American veterans had to be content with nothing but a campaign ribbon and a pat on the back from Teddy Roosevelt. Men demobilized from the A.E.F. were handed $60 in cash by the Federal Government for a new suit or other immediate needs...
...return Salesman Eric got a heavy dose of Russian sales technique. Workers at the Red October candy factory gave him huge, fancy ribbon-tied boxes of chocolates. Pastry cooks gave him gooey cakes. Soviet bigwigs showered him with teas, dinners, parties, promised him a rare, general's-eye-view of the front. By week's end healthy, energetic Johnston had abandoned his announced firm policy of refusing all drinks "on doctor's orders." At a luncheon on a collective fur farm he drank toasts in vodka, an hour later began yelling "Whoo...
...contrast to the lavish U.S. handout of tinsel and ribbon, the British Army, which has been more than two years longer in the war, has given only 10,896 medals; the British Navy, 6,570; the R.A.F...
...hospital bed in Italy. He had not been wounded in battle but while instructing at a battle school. He had also become a national hero. "For determined leadership and example," Major Triquet had been awarded the Victoria Cross. He was the fourth Canadian to be awarded the coveted ribbon in World War II, the first living French Canadian...