Word: swapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early start, has already sold over $30,000,000 in bonds. Another go-getter was Hedy Lamarr, who wangled 225 tired Philadelphia businessmen into buying $4,520,000 in bonds at a single luncheon. But her patriotism has a limit-she cold-shouldered an enthusiastic Chicagoan who wanted to swap a $25,000 bond for a kiss. Pert Frances Dee sold an embroidered negligee for $5,000 in Little Rock, Ark.; Greer Garson persuaded the 23,000 men, women and children in Bluefield, W.Va. to ante $450,000 in a single day. Beamed Treasury Secretary Morgenthau: "An outstanding success...
...Point hotel through a coal chute when he was caught out of bounds. There is MacArthur commanding the Rainbow Division in 1917, leading attacks in person. There is MacArthur in Washington obeying orders by clearing out the Bonus Marchers, but dropping in on their camp of an evening to swap talk with his old Rainbow men and give them money...
...humanitarian parenthesis amid the thundering oratory of warships' guns, the British and Italians were exchanging wounded, repatriating noncombatants. This was the first successful prisoner exchange in the war: the British and Germans had tried (TIME, Oct. 13), but their swap had failed when Germany insisted on making the exchange strictly man for man. (By the Geneva Convention of 1929, belligerents are required to return home seriously wounded prisoners, regardless of man-for-man exchange.) Italy knew better than to make such a demand-she was to get back more prisoners than she gave up. Off to Alexandria sailed...
...prize catch was one battleship (the Haruna) sunk by Captain Colin Kelly off Luzon, and a fair swap for the sinking of the one battleship (Arizona) irrevocably lost at Pearl Harbor. Other Japanese warships also sunk: one carrier, four cruisers, ten destroyers, seven submarines. Noncombatant ships (freighters, tankers, etc.) known sunk...
...when a Federal judge ended the year-old trusteeship of mercurial Hupp Motor Car Corp. Hupp has paid all delinquent and current taxes, has cutaits RFC loan 30% to $550,000, will pay all creditors $1 on the $1. Even common shareholders will not be wiped out. They can swap 100 old shares...