Word: thrift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ready money. The stamp system depends on the collection of small savings from day to day. Instead of a bond for a comparatively large amount, maturing several years hence, the Government has printed war savings stamps, which can be redeemed with interest at ten day's notice. Sixteen thrift stamps may be obtained singly, which enable one to purchase a war savings stamp, valued at $4.12. These may be bought at any postoffice. By still collecting, until the sum amounts to $82.40, one has a complete war savings-certificate...
...Adams emphasized strongly the part which woman might play in the struggle for preparedness. "There are two fields in which women may work; one economic, the other moral. In the former she can by thrift and system save enough to pay the expenses of the entire American army, and in the latter she can prove herself worthy of men's dying for, as she has in former days...