The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Oversubscribing for the Sixth War Loan Drive at Shabbona, Illinois, in 1944
From the Nov. 20, 2019, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back."
1944, 75 Years Ago.
"High school students at Shabbona, anxious to show their support in the Sixth War Loan Drive, oversubscribed their quota this morning in a one-hour flurry of bond buying. The initial effort for the Shabbona school was sponsored by the senior class and a goal was set to raise enough money to buy a field ambulance at a cost of $1,950.
"In a flurry of buying in the first hour of school this morning the fund was not only reached but oversubscribed to an amount of $2,301.75."
--GreGen
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