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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"War Bonds"”.
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Financial Aspects of the American Civil War: War News, Price Risk, and the Processing of Information
… and Vicksburg in July 1863. Offsetting adverse war news were movements in the price of the cotton collateral of the war bonds.
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Damn the city, dam the suburbs : redefining the single family home
… in a future home through the purchase of war bonds, was a patriotic duty. With money from the GI Bill, developments like Levittown made it easy for Americans to invest in this government "propaganda." Much like the "white flight" of the 1940's, numerous upper class families are relocating …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… gardener. As first lady of Virginia during World War I, Marguerite Davis consciously set an example for women·of the state and nation to enter war work. She volunteered, as president of the Woman's Munition Reserve, to sew silk bags and fill them with smokeless gun powder at Seven Pines outside …
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America is Banking on You! Selling American Ideology During World War II
<p>This essay uncovers advertising from World War II found in tear sheet archives. Through deep reading and contextual analysis, this essay seeks to determine what these advertisements—found in magazines, newspapers, and posters—were asking their viewers to do in response to the global conflict of …