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...Forces relied on them to help train 2,000,000 flyers and ground men. They were exhorted to train 5,000,000 more industrial workers, to teach the U.S. people how to stop inflation, sell war bonds, enlist the nation's 30,000,000 school kids to collect scrap. They were even asked by WPB to contribute their typewriters...
Often the listeners were asked to show pretty Miss Liberty they appreciated her by sending collect telegrams to their nearest Blue station ordering war bonds. The whimsey was profitable. By 11, when the Statue returned to her island, Blue had received orders for more than four million dollars in war bonds. When the program swung to dance music and picked up name bands, the orders kept pouring in. Blue's volunteer tabulators were nearly swamped, but at 4 a.m. could proudly announce the total: $10,359,368. Wires were still coming in, a heavy mail-order business was expected...
Gene had a "deep streak of piety" and organized the trio's regular evening prayers. What bothered him was whether his mother had been able to collect on his life insurance: she needed the money badly. Gene would think it all over and shake his head. "If mother could see me now!" he would say with amazement. . . . Says Dixon: "She wouldn't have liked the look...
...Government could collect all the automobiles in used-car lots. The Government could take the iron railings from around yards, balconies and estates. The Government could take the chromium plated and nickel-plated fixtures from homes. If it were done without favoritism, the American people would approve it. More than that, they would applaud...
...theorist, he is unaware of the common or police-court distortions of legal principles. Gary Grant, Jean Arthur and others resolve-not entirely unselfishly-to open his eyes. Grant is a fugitive from an arson charge. He has been framed by his boss, who burned down his factory to collect the insurance. Miss Arthur, a rather befuddled schoolmarm, just wants to see justice done...