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For the third campaign, known as the "Wake Up, America" rally, beginning on April 27, 1918, 400,000 Boy Scouts embarked on a door to window program selling Liberty Bonds as well as war stamps. [3] At the end of the five campaigns, the Boy Scouts raised $354,859,262 in bond subscriptions and $43,043,698 in war stamps. [23]
Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCB) are a U.S. debt instrument created by Section 1521 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated QSCB issuances as of January 1, 2018, rendering any unissued allocation void, although all previously issued QSCBs remain valid as long as they are not reissued. [1]
Children with scrap metal in Lititz, Pennsylvania, November 1942. The Schools at War program was led by the director of the education division of the War Savings Staff of the Treasury Department, Homer W. Anderson, and was intended to unify and coordinate the effort of 30 million school children in support of the war effort. [2]
The News Tribune got to tour the new school, which was under construction for two years.
Construction of the Pentagon, 1942.. The Miller Act (ch. 642, Sec. 1-3, 49 stat. 793,794, codified as amended in Title 40 of the United States Code) [1] requires prime contractors on some government construction contracts to post bonds guaranteeing both the performance of their contractual duties and the payment of their subcontractors and material suppliers.
The purchasers of bonds gave up money that would have been spent on civilian goods, in return for the promise that they would be repaid with interest after the war. They were; the bonds were eventually paid off by taxpayers who were children in 1860, and who by 1890 were much wealthier than their parents.
Benefits of Municipal Bonds. Perhaps the most significant advantage of municipal bonds or “munis” is the tax-free interest they generate. As mentioned above, municipal bonds can also be exempt ...
Don't Let that Shadow Touch Them is a U.S. War Bond poster created by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, [1] created in support of the U.S. war effort upon America's entry into World War II. [2] It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. [ 3 ]