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Extra! Extra! Students Buy Jeep With War Bond Sales - Patch.com

Extra! Extra! Students Buy Jeep With War Bond Sales
Patch.com
By Danielle Cabot This May 18, 1945 issue of the Dakota County Tribune shows Lakeville high school student council members with their new Jeep purchased with money from war bond sales. Dakota County Tribune, courtesy Dakota County Historical Society ...

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World War I: A Dickinson display in stereo and song - Dickinson Press

World War I: A Dickinson display in stereo and song
Dickinson Press
The history of World War I covers more than European battles, trenches and mustard gas. Families in America were impacted in other ways. Besides sending their sons to war, families raised Victory Gardens, purchased war bonds and played patriot songs on ...

Analysis: China's secret -- it owes Americans nearly $1 trillion - Savannah Morning News

Analysis: China's secret -- it owes Americans nearly $1 trillion
Savannah Morning News
The US government may also own Chinese war debt, unpaid since World War II. The story begins in 1913, when the government of China began issuing bonds to foreign investors and governments for infrastructure work to modernize the country.

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Remembering Rutherford: Certainty of war loomed over 1942 graduating class - The Daily News Journal

Remembering Rutherford: Certainty of war loomed over 1942 graduating class
The Daily News Journal
“Supporting the war effort through purchase of US savings stamps and war bonds was discussed and encouraged at the mid-morning chapel session.” “We began each day at 8 am in our 'session room' where the roll was taken,” explains McNabb.

Walking a Treasury Tightrope - Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal

Walking a Treasury Tightrope
Wall Street Journal
The last time interest rates were near these levels was the early 1950s, when World War II-era interest-rate caps were in place. Why so much buying? Treasurys "give safety, and I get a constant yield," said John Baumann, head of institution sales and ...

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