They're selling War Horse to China, but is that really a responsible thing?
It is selling war as bloody, inhumane mayhem, a battle of ideals dragged through the mud.
It was 1941, and I got a job through the American Theatre Wing selling war bonds during intermissions on Broadway.
Campaigners against the arms trade argued that Britain should not be selling war planes and military equipment to an undemocratic regime that practised torture.
Military brass ignored Lamarr's invention and told the star, who was not yet a U.S. citizen, that she'd be better off selling war bonds — so she did.
They had backed off the horse in recent years, and the Yoshida family, which owns Shadai, even spoke of selling War Emblem to an American farm.
Owing to fears of a general war and domestic pressures, however, both powers promoted a nonintervention agreement (August 1936), which committed 29 countries to refrain from selling war matériel to either side in the Spanish conflict.
Aviation insurers resumed selling war and terrorism coverage to airlines around the world yesterday, four days after governments stepped in to provide temporary coverage to prevent a shutdown of flights worldwide.
She is also the favourite of Jenna Jameson, star of such films as "Blown Away .Politicians have wooed Hollywood since the silent-film era, when stars like Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks were persuaded to tour the country selling war bonds.
The Harlem craze was dead, the Cotton Club was closed, and the war that had been fought for democracy, equality, and freedom — Ellington had been a true believer, selling War Bonds on the radio and opening concerts with "The Star-Spangled Banner" — had done nothing to improve the status of the country's Negro citizens.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Davis spent the early months of 1942 selling war bonds.
