Sentences with phrase «in war bonds»

[1] In 1944, she helped raise $ 239,000 in war bonds from thirty - two Chicago area residents by pledging to paint their portraits.

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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 BostWar 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 Bostwar 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.

He bonded with Obama in the Senate over their mutual opposition to the Iraq war.

The agency, created in 1946 to build houses for veterans of the Second World War, liked to describe itself as the «heart of housing» — an enormous Crown corporation that dominated the mortgage insurance market, guaranteed complex, bond - like assets called mortgage - backed securities, and subsidized the building and upkeep of First Nations and social housing.

But the simmering civil war in Syria still holds the potential to create a much wider field of chaos that triggers a rush into safe havens bonds, which in turn keeps Treasury yields contained.

Industry in a war boom - stock market stagnant - gov» t bonds bringing less than 1 % and selling at a high premium - stocks low and selling at five times earnings.

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During the Renaissance in the 12th and 13th centuries, Venice and other city — states in Italy began issuing bonds as a way to raise money for wars and other ventures.

Oil plunged another 4 percent, while safe - haven government U.S. and German bonds, and the yen and the euro, rallied as widespread fears of a China - led global economic slowdown and currency war kicked in.

In the new documentary «Everything or Nothing,» former President Bill Clinton says he still finds a post-Cold War relevance in the newer Bond filmIn the new documentary «Everything or Nothing,» former President Bill Clinton says he still finds a post-Cold War relevance in the newer Bond filmin the newer Bond films.

Stocks and bonds have been in a tug - of - war since a blowout jobs report early this month sent Treasury yields spiking, raising the specter of higher interest rates to come.

In the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 yearIn the absence of a pickup in consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 yearin consumer spending, annualized, real GDP — adjusted for inflation — is forecast to be between 2 % and 2.5 %, instead of the 4 % average since World War II, and annualized returns on US equities and investment - grade bonds is estimated at 4 % and 1 %, respectively, for the next 10 years.

This week the United States Treasury began selling $ 100 billion in new bonds to begin financing of what is the biggest federal spending program since World War II.

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 contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces with Russia, Ukraine's sale of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for gas purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government, at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also household consumption.

While overseas money pours into stocks and bonds, hedge funds don't boost efficiency or help in trade wars.

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.»

This disjuncture between what law is capable of saying and the sap of life is most apparent in international law, where wars are discussed in language suited to bond agreements.

During the Falklands War, the fiercely anti-British Argentinian populace were flocking to the current James Bond film in Buenos Aires.

He is in and out of helicopters, war zones, and armed caravans with the alacrity of a gospel - toting James Bond.

Before World War I, many Marxists thought that the bond between the proletariat in France and in Germany was stronger than nationalist feelings.

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 BondIn 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 Bondin military prison for refusing to wear the army uniform during World War I. People were tarred and feathered for refusing to buy Liberty Bonds.

Rome, he continues, «declined into sanguinary seditions and then to social and civil wars, and so burst asunder or rotted off the bond of concord in which the health of a people consists.»

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They're either militarised and violent (Terminator 1, Transformers, Robocop, Tron's MCP, Yul Bryner in Westworld), surrogate father figures (Terminator 2, The Iron Giant) or buddies (Star Wars, Silent Running, Moon, Interstellar — note how those next - gen droids formed an easy, bantery bond with Matthew McConaughey but barely spoke to Anne Hathaway).

«The bonds between our countries have been forged in great trials, through two world wars, from the trenches of Ypres to the beaches of Normandy.»

While that was really never in doubt, the Onondaga County Legislature made it official on Tuesday by unanimously voting to approve $ 4.5 million in bonds for improvements to the Crunch's aging War Memorial.

At that time, four out of five American households purchased the original Victory Bonds, raising $ 185 billion (over $ 2 trillion in today's dollars) to support the war effort.

An emotionally scarred fifty - something female, a high - profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident - cum - Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran who all formed an unbreakable bond while help prisoner in a World War II concentration camp reunite for the first time in forty years on the peaceful grounds of a renovated pastoral farm in Jefferson Lewis's adaptation of internationally acclaimed author Matt Cohen's popular novel.

Secret operations at the North Pole, parachute agents in Ukraine and helicopter missions in North Korea the CIAs spying methods in the Cold War seem to come from a James Bond film.

Naked Snake, Big Boss, or whatever he's called in this one (Punished Snake - you know this, doofus)-- it was his journey through Groznyj Grad in the Bond / Cold - war era of 1964 that resonated with me more than nano machines, mechanical cow - Gekkos and a guard continually shitting himself.

He also bonded with Joonas Suotamo, the Finnish basketball player who has been in the Chewbacca suit since «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» making him one of the most experienced «Star Wars» actors on set.

Over the course of the war, Joey is captured by the German Army, escapes, bonds with a young girl named Emilie (Celine Buckens) and her grandfather (Niels Arestrup), is recaptured by the Germans, and finally alone in no man's land.

As the war rages on and the girls settle in to learn the finer points of milking and plowing, they form a bond that changes their lives forever.

Working from a screenplay by Dorothy Blyskal (who adapted a book by Jeffrey E. Stern and the three Americans), Eastwood spends a lot of time — too much time — on the backstories of Spencer, Anthony and Alek, who bonded over some light troublemaking escapades in middle school in the mid-2000s and delighted in playing war games in the woods.

Actor injects «James Bond - meets - Don Draper appeal» to mediocre story of hostage negotiation in war - torn Middle East

In the tradition of the platoon drama, they represent different types — the young Student, the hearty Bavarian, the protective Lieutenant, and the married man Karl (the only one to be called by name)-- and have bonded as friends under fire, but the film chronicles the way the war grinds them up and leaves them dead or broken.

Forming a close bond based on their shared memories of war overseas, their unlikely friendship causes endless problems in a country town fueled by hate.

In spite of that prowess and a virtually impenetrable shield, Captain America is first put to use on war bond promotions and morale tours.

Tomorrow Never Dies, in which Pierce Brosnan's James Bond teamed up with Hong Kong hardass Michelle Yeoh to take down a media mogul who wanted to start a world war so that he could sell more newspapers, also qualified.

Made in the wake of a spy movie boom, as the flamboyant James Bond fantasies gave way to disillusioned John Le Carre dramas and grim Cold War adventures like Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Topaz, The Kremlin Letter is adapted from a from a twisty best - seller by Noel Behn that (in Huston's words) «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

Paul Franklin has made his mark in cinema in the dizzying world of visual effects, having done work on the likes of a few Harry Potter films, a Bond movie, and most recently, Captain America: Civil War.

Much of the time in between is spent on a dumb but enjoyable enough side plot aimed at the propaganda of war, involving Rogers donning the now - famous superhero outfit to hock war bonds across the nation.

Since Hepburn and her then - husband, producer Mel Ferrer, who joined her on the project, were good friends with English director Terence Young (the director of three of the first four James Bond movies), whom Hepburn had allegedly met more than two decades earlier while she treated him as a nurse in the Netherlands during the Second World War, they lobbied hard for him to get the gig, even though Jack Warner initially wanted Carol Reed in the director's seat.

The plot is disposable at best — there's an elegant mastermind (Elizabeth Debicki) who lives in the decadence of sleek sixties modernism with plans to destabilize the world for fun and profit — but Ritchie goes all out in reviving the Cold War sixties spy movie style and attitude, recalling Connery's Bond movie with tongue firmly in cheek.

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In 2015 alone, we've revisited Bond (for the 24th time) in Spectre, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation is now the 5th film spawned from the 60's TV show, Mad Max was rebooted with Fury Road, Jurassic World and Star Wars: A Force Awakens tapped into the magic and excitement of their predecessors and now Ryan Cooglar's Creed is a revisit to the boxing gyms of Philadelphia and has much in common with the original Rocky of 197In 2015 alone, we've revisited Bond (for the 24th time) in Spectre, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation is now the 5th film spawned from the 60's TV show, Mad Max was rebooted with Fury Road, Jurassic World and Star Wars: A Force Awakens tapped into the magic and excitement of their predecessors and now Ryan Cooglar's Creed is a revisit to the boxing gyms of Philadelphia and has much in common with the original Rocky of 197in Spectre, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation is now the 5th film spawned from the 60's TV show, Mad Max was rebooted with Fury Road, Jurassic World and Star Wars: A Force Awakens tapped into the magic and excitement of their predecessors and now Ryan Cooglar's Creed is a revisit to the boxing gyms of Philadelphia and has much in common with the original Rocky of 197in common with the original Rocky of 1976.