a final but they want to highlight is betty smith. this was a surprise favorite. this is a book told also from the perspective of a young girl. she grows up in brooklyn. the odds are all stacked against her. she grows up in an impoverished family. her father's not call it a she adores him but then he dies when she's in high school. she is forced to get out of school and help support the family by getting a job but it was always her dream to go to college. even though it seemed like that dream was impossible under those circumstances she did everything that she could to eventually get to college and she ended up succeeding in that. i think a lot of men saw this example and as they face the war and as they face possible death than they felt they were facing tremendous odds against them they saw the example of his young girl in this book and they were inspired. betty smith ended up receiving over 10,000 letters just from members of the services and she was good enough to write back to most of those men. the book was compared to reading a good letter from home or even

betty smith received over 10,000 letters just from members of the services.she was good enough to write back to most of those men. the book was compared to reading a good letter from home or taking a leave home because the men felt they were transport d back to their childhood. what is amazing about this book is many wrote to betty smith and talked about how the book helped them survive the war mentally and emotionally. there is one group of letters that stand out and they are from one man and the first letter he wrote it seemed like the unit kept facing missions that were suicide missions and none of them should survive and he would be in the middle of the battle and just feel like this is it. this is going to be the end of me. and then there is something about this book that popped into his head and he would start thinking about this young girl and the odds she faced and somehow he would find courage and he would fight and survive. and so the first letter that he wrote to betty smith was ad admiration and he said you helped inspire be in the most trying tay

betty: excuse me -- this weekend. jeff smith and all of garden president -- when was the last time you went to oliv gardene. dealmaking in the chip industry is on fire. intel is snapping up altera. for monday.ch fun which company is next? we had to san francisco to find out. ♪ betty: "bloomberg market day." welcome back to the "bloomberg market day." -- welcome back to the "bloomberg market day.". made andollard plane is scheduled landing in japan to wait out bad weather. sunday for what could be the longest leg of the journey. a five day, 5000 mile flight to hawaii. it began in march in on would be the seventh of 12 flight scheduled. the supreme court has bolstered the religious rights of workers. saying a lawsuit abercrombie & fitch illegally denied a job to a girl because she wore a headscarf. businessesigion -- to be more religiously concerned. justices ruled there was not enough for prosecutors to show that the comments were enough to make a reasonable person feel threatened, that's a look at the top stories of this hour. l

seen , he stood to receive about $67 million here a couple of months offeredland smith stables about $37 million. bettynds like from now with these mergers, is that right? >> that is what we're seeing. pimm: golden parachutes. well done. betty: not golden handcuffs. that is a different thing. pimm: thanks very much. this half for me on hour. up, virtualg reality could be the next egg trend in video games spirit we will speak to the ceo of oculus, one of the top vr companies live from e3 in l.a.. ♪ betty: welcome back. to the top stories on the bloomberg terminal is our. regulates -- regulators are hitting at&t with a fine for its unlimited data plan. downompany would slow internet speeds after consumers use a certain amount of data. at&t says it will vigorously those allegations. defense secretary ash carter says the attempt to train iraqi forces is going slowly. he says the u.s. initially envisioned training 24,000 iraqi butrity forces by this fall now he says the u.s. has received only enough recruits to train about 7000 of them. iran, the u.s., and five other ford powers remain a part the lifting of

smith. >> he thinks very much of his ideas and views. >> yes. okay, from the "denver post" -- >> what does that mean? that is a random kuchquality. >> that is very good. >> like bettyes. >> let's head over to the "denver post." bernie sanders drew a monster crowd. university of denver estimated 5500 people attended the democratic presidential conditioned date's speech on saturday. 1,000 of them in overflow seating. sanders audience rivals the largest crowds drawn by hillary clinton who had the same number at her kickoff rally last weekend. >> a few weeks ago we decided we were going to do a rally. let's see if we can bring a couple people together. see if we can find some people. and after about ten minutes after the e-mail went out, we knew we had to change the venue. [ applause ] and her we're. >> wow. incredible stuff. howard, why are you chuckling? >> because i've seen this for 40 years. >> what? >> people underestimate him. >> that's right. >> he has an incredibly powerful message. i remember my last election after i done civil unions i got clobbered in a certain part of the state that always votes conservative, bernie sanders got every vote that my very conse

he told betty smith that he had gone to battle again. this time he had gotten wounded and the wound was so bad he was going to be discharged by the wanted to tell her one more time what that book meant to her, what that book meant to him. and he said he and his wife are planning to start a family when he got home. they were going to name their child betty smith who was a girl girl. in honor of the woman who caused them to live in so between 1943 in 1947 over 123 million of these armed services editions were distributed. when the war ended and the program ended it's a fact did not end. there are two main things that you can still feel today that were repercussions from the productions of these books. first of all the american paperback industry exploded. publisher saw that there was this whole segment of the population who would never buy a hardcover book but they realize they would buy paperbacks. hardcover books were too expensive for most people to afford at a 25-cent paperback would reach a whole different part of the population who w