Liberty loan

American  

noun

1. any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.

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Example Sentences

“This county measured up in the first two Liberty Loan drives,” answered Mr. Saboe.

From Literature

“There’s one more way we can all help, and that’s to buy Liberty Bonds. Montana’s quota of the Third Liberty Loan is three million dollars.”

From Literature

“Joy and Pandemic” is set in Philadelphia in September 1918, at the tail end of World War I, on the day of the huge Liberty Loan Parade that became an infamous super-spreader event, though it also bounces forward in time to 1951.

From New York Times

He said that CMA had helped save Liberty “millions,” that the company had repaid its Liberty loan with interest, and that CMA’s revenues are largely “passed through the trade contractors for their labor, materials, equipment and supplies.”

From Reuters

It broke in thunder, as a great wave bursts, to echo and re-echo and still re-echo in the cars of the city, long after the great victory pageant which yesterday opened Philadelphia’s drive for the Fourth Liberty Loan had passed.

From Slate