Liberty Bonds

Liberty Bonds
Liberty Bonds [Liberty Bonds] noun [pl]
a special ↑issue of US government ↑bonds (= official papers that are sold with the promise to pay the money back, with interest, on a certain date). Liberty Bonds were sold to raise money for ↑World War I. ↑Hollywood stars and other famous people attended large public meetings to encourage citizens to buy them, and John Philip Sousa wrote a Liberty Bond March. The total amount of money raised was about $23 ↑billion.

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