Sentences with phrase «bought war bonds»

Americans who lived through December 7, 1941, changed their way of living; they grew victory gardens, bought war bonds, rationed gas, and even welcomed hitchhiking servicemen, getting them where they needed to go.

Right after World War II, Rosenberg took $ 1,500 in profits he'd made from buying war bonds, borrowed an additional $ 3,500 from his family, and launched a company that delivered food to workers at construction sites and factories around Boston.

German - Americans were forced to demonstrate their loyalty by buying war bonds, sometimes bankrupting themselves.

Fritz Erler, a painter and designer with Symbolist tendencies, worked on behalf of the German Empire in creating Help us win — buy war bonds!

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The threat of a trade war would also freak out the overseas investors we count on to buy our government bonds, and keep our interest rates at super-low levels.

Central - bank bond buying, which occurred in the 1940s to finance the war and the subsequent rebuilding of Western Europe under the Marshall Plan, may also keep a lid on yields.

In my letter Prepare for a Crisis, I wrote that, «Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has once again set the stage for a potential global currency war, announcing plans to create money and buy bonds as the government looks to stimulate their weakening economy.»

In this century, two Hutterite young men died from mistreatment in military prison for refusing to wear the army uniform during World War I. People were tarred and feathered for refusing to buy Liberty Bonds.

The federal government had to borrow heavily to finance the war effort and the Fed helped by buying bonds to keep their yields from rising above 2.5 %.

In that year, private individuals bought more than $ 27 million in bonds to finance the war.

Progression is via levelling up and getting war bonds, which will enable you to unlock by buying better guns and equipment.

If you have been looking for a reason to buy a cryptocurrency, look around at what is happening with the threat of trade wars and the inflated price of stocks and bonds.