When I was a senior (1970) in H.S. I had this wonderful History teacher, Mr. Marshall. He had a great dry wit. We were studying WWII and he was explaining gas rationing and how people who were non essential got 4 gallons a week. Then his dry wit kicked in and said "some of you Knuckleheads use 4 gallons of gas just pulling away from the curb in front of the school". That was 52 years ago and I still get a chuckle when I think of him and his funny wit.
As heard on Tuesday nights at 9:30pm(et). At the time, there was mandatory gasoline rationing, due to World War II....which didn't end until after the war ended, in late 1945. A civilian "A" sticker on your windshield meant you were only entitled to THREE gallons of gas every week (in some areas, it was four).
Great listening to Fibber- using imagination and enjoying the shows of yesteryear. Kids today have no imagination and no ideas of what happened to family life listening to the radio as one of the only forms of entertainment.
Early in the show, Harlow is describing how Mayor LaTrivia joined the Coast Guard, at 5:50 he says that the Mayor "passed his examinations like a . . ." It sounds like he's saying "like a vice," or "like a mice" neither of which make sense. Could some good person listen to that portion and let me know what they hear? Thanks!
He is saying like a mice like a mouse in a lab my uncle was in the Navy in WWII he said they were treated like mice to experiment on he was funny but broken inside
You can tell this one is heavy propaganda, right? I even heard the term in, (Cut down on "essential" driving). A huge reason why we won WW2, (which I question today), is because after our short run in free enterprise, we were producing rubber, and everything else. Synthetic rubber tires were common by the 1920, and GoodYear, who did not need to revamp his production much in comparison to a toy factory now making bombs, (for the war effort), had no problem producing tires in the USA. But they lie anyway, I guess to get us to "sacrifice" and get used to it. I guess the guy who invented the TV picture tube was smart by not letting his kids watch it. I hate the progressive movement. We could have done so much better.
