Word: serialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest lottery loan in history-20,000,000,000 rubles (nominally $3,774,000,000) to be advanced by the Russian people for 20 years. Every comrade will be asked to subscribe at least a month's wages. In return, he will get non-interest-bearing bonds whose serial numbers will also be lottery numbers. One-third of the bonds will win cash prizes up to 50,000 rubles ($9,435). Initial subscriptions were heavy; one scientist signed up for 100,000 rubles...
Double Indenture. In Atlanta, a serviceman, asked for identification, pulled out his upper denture, exhibited name, rank, serial number, blood type and religion engraved on the shiny red roof...
...military mind was closing in on the G.I. journals. Fortnight ago the Berlin edition suffered a body blow. The brass ruled that any letter to its "B-Bag" section, the doughfoots' one safety valve, must bear the letter writer's name, rank and serial number (not for publication, but in case the letters called for action). Under a rule like that, nobody was likely...
Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...
They fled-Nano, Romana, the sister and the brother-to the lowlands of Shantol, then to the tiny village of Malabo. The Japs were always close behind; sometimes Romana crawled along the ground under sniper fire to beg or steal food. She burned out the serial numbers stamped on Nano's army pants, finally got him a forged birth certificate which enabled him to pose as a Spanish farmer who had come to the Philippines before the war. After that life was easier; they could go back to Manila...