The war against drugs - under pressure (Official Video)
During the war, everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply gasoline and fuel oil and rubber; hairpins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar; tins of cigarettes and matches and necessary to illuminate.
Narrator While the country mobilized for total war, Americans at home were asked by their government to do without many of the luxuries, and many of the needs that they had begun to take for granted everything seemed to be rationed or in gasoline in short supply and fuel oil and rubber; hairpins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar; tins of cigarettes and matches and necessary to illuminate.
JIM SHERMAN I guess deep feeling I HAD sacrifice they made us and if we sacrifice, we somehow feel closer to the war effort and I think that's really what they were trying to do , was to get your attitude that our fighting men and women didn these, so that you shouldn t have these, and somehow you'll get connected with the war effort.
KATHARINE PHILLIPS We did not during the Great Depression, in doing so, without these products was really hard recipes have been adjusted to what you could get now there were shortages everywhere You could get very little flour cakes white were all adjusted to no sugar, little fat or shortening of any kind therefore, cakes made as hard as anything to have a birthday cake was a real treat, because it meant that they had to save everything to make a cake.
Look Miss NEWSREEL See that you can drive a car from Los Angeles to New York with the aircraft gas burns in an hour of fighting requires two million gallons of gas to send a single raid thousand bombers over enemy territory is enough to drive a thousand seventy private car 1500 miles per year for four years, where would you see any sign of gas or her position here.
NARRATOR But many people have tried to circumvent rationing, and a flourishing black market have grown to satisfy those who could not happen after a study, one in four retail transactions during the war was illegal.
NEWSREEL fight against waste that is there, we can all do on the home front to help men to come home, and men still out there Make your home an arsenal for victory by waste daily fighting until now the war is over.
1 Don t waste anything 2 Buy only what is necessary 3 Salvage what you do not need 4 Share what you have.
KATHARINE PHILLIPS All the old iron beds were removed from the garage and they were put in the metal causes the Boy Scouts have done much the city has taken the old tramlines He descended the government and the Dauphin Street, and added them to the scrap heap, but everyone in the Second world war to the youngest child.
NARRATOR The Office of Civil Defense asked every American family to become a combat unit on everyone before the house was requested to collect scrap whose arms could be in one year, mobile citizens have amassed 22 million children's books were the most avid collectors.
JIM SHERMAN motto was wash and squash You wash the box and you take the top off, and then you take the bottom off and then you put the top and bottom together in the middle, then you of squash, you d stomp, then you put them in a box and I do not know if it was every week or every two weeks, the city would come, and they picked you to put on your sidewalk, like recycling and now the city and they would come to pick up all these cans.
Narrator Sacramento, 22 major victory Bins were set up on the street corners of the city center for the duration, although some people thought they were unsightly Luverne, Minnesota was founded by veterans of the civil war, now the council volunteered to melt the cannonballs that was part of the monument to Union dead to make ammunition for the new conflict in Waterbury, Connecticut, 281.135 tin books were collected and than 65,000 pounds of rubber, 225.458 pounds of rags and 372.733 pounds of fat.
JIM SHERMAN If you had the chance to have a pound of bacon, for example, and you get fat there, you were supposed to pay it in a tin, then turn down to the rescue guys Now I could not for the life of me understand how they re-make bacon grease ammunition.
KATHARINE PHILLIPS All this we knew that ammunition, but we do not know how, but anything to help the boys.
Fats are NEWSREEL glycerin and glycerin makes explosives annually two billion pounds of fat kitchen waste are thrown glycerin enough for ten billion cannon shells rapid fire of a belt hundred and fifty thousand miles long six times around the earth bacon grease pan is a small munitions factory.
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