War bond

You know what, Mr. Bartell, before I go, I want to say that every one of our friends bought war bonds to help our boys win the war.

Now let's all buy victory bonds to help bring our boys back home again.

Yes, and let's buy victory bonds to make sure that the men who were wounded will get the finest possible care.

Those same victory bonds will help make the GI Bill of Rights a success too, and they'll help provide for the families of those men who gave everything, including their lives.

The men of our armed forces finished their job.

Now let's finish ours.

Buy victory bonds.

[outro music] Tonight's Sherlock Holmes adventure is written by Dennis Green and Anthony Boucher, and is an adaptation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, The Adventure of the Speckled Band.

Friends, right now there is no better thing you can do for the protection of America's future and your own than to buy United States victory bonds.

And by all means, hold your United States war bonds.

Help to keep America secure.

Help to prevent inflation.

Help in the transition from wartime to peacetime by buying and keeping your war bonds until they mature.

And by buying those all-important victory bonds now.

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The Army Air Forces knew a story when they saw one.

The Memphis Belle and her crew were sent back to the United States for a war bonds tour.

41 cities in 31 days.

Parades, press conferences, radio appearances, they were heroes, and the country needed heroes in the summer of 43 when the outcome of the war was still genuinely uncertain.

Bob Johnson, the left fielder, never did catch up with it, and it rolled to the fence.

Bouncing off the sign out there which says, "Buy War Bonds." Cavaretta rounded the bases to third and slid in, a beautiful hook slide, and he's safe with a three-base hit.

That's the third hit off Burley and brings up Stanley Musial.

This is the second time that Cavaretta got around to third base.

It's the old fire department slash library slash town hall slash...

Was it War Bonds? I forget.

We mentioned this on a previous

show.

Check out his link tree there and all his amazing music and art.

And I guess the only other thing I want to say is buy War Bonds, you know.

Watch out for the Hitler.

He's a bad egg.

Support our boys overseas and buy war bonds.

I hope by the time this airs, that's still funny and not.

Thank you very much, y'all.

You bought savings bonds – or savings bonds were bought for you when you were a kid.

The historic precedent to savings bonds, as I recall, were war bonds sold during the Second World War.

And what I've read is that people were asked to buy war bonds because – The government was taking their money to help pay for the war and were issuing instead these bonds, which were repayable later.

Is that a correct understanding?

Well, it's partially correct.

It is true that there were bond drives and war bonds became an important part of kind of carrying out the World War II era spending.

But what was really going on there is the size of the federal government was quite small before World War II.

And so you had the Great Depression and you had FDR and you had the whole New Deal and all of these government programs that were designed to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression.

Not nearly as much as I'd like to, Red.

I believe the last time I did play was up at the Polo Grounds last August in that War Bond game.

Mm-hmm, and that was a big afternoon, and it was good to see you down there again.

Well, Hank, I wish we could sit here and talk about the World Series and get your slant on it, but you're up here to give a mighty serious message, so our air is yours.

And that was what was done during World War II.

The war bonds, and John Harvey's probably better on this than I am, by the way.

So my good mate, John Harvey, the the cowboy economist, as he calls himself.

John's done the research reading things like Charlie Chaplin's speeches and stuff like that in the 1940s.

And all the people selling war bonds, especially the government officials involved, and also some of the celebrities, realized they were selling the bonds not to raise money for the war, but to make private money, which could no longer be spent.

You couldn't buy cars.

The cars were not manufactured, period.

Good evening, Mr. Bartell.

If you've bought a victory bond, you're welcome.

I

have, Doctor.

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This is Harry Bartell saying good night for the Petri family.

This program originated in the Paramount Theater in Hollywood for an audience of Victory Bond buyers.

This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.