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January 17, 1944
In the 40's, Women on the cover of
Time Magazine were
rare, numbering 2 a year at the most and then they were usually
Hollywood Stars or from the Theater. This cover pictures Colonel Oveta
Gulp Hobby, head woman of the WACs (Women's Army Corp). In 1944 Colonel
Hobby was the only woman to appear on the cover of an Issue of Time.
An Excerpt from the cover story from this issue of Time read as follows:
"In England this week, the U.S. Women's Army Corps had
the pleasantly apprehensive experience of being inspected by the Corps'
Commanding Officer. Trim Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, head woman of the
WACs, found everything in order. She saw erect, well-dressed girls drawn
up for parade. In the clammy English dawn, she saw WACs in maroon
bathrobes (with boy friends' unit insignia sewn on their sleeves)
dashing from tin barracks and scuttling across the mud—heading for the
"ablution hut" to start the day with a shivery washup. There was not
much glamor in it,..."
Courtesy of Time Magazine
Things Invented In the '40s
Manners & Morals
This just in...
DRINK CAUSES FALLS
New York - (AP) - Intoxication causes one fifth of the 1,800 fatal falls annually in the United States, statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company reported today. "This may come as a distinct shock to those who hold the view that intoxicated persons are able to protect themselves from falls," they commented.
1940
CIGARETS AND SUGAR
Twenty million pounds of sugar are used annually in the
manufacture of the 180,000,000,000 cigarets produced in the United
States. 1942 |
RETRO-SPECTIVE THE DECADES PAST: 1940s
What were the 1940's like? It was a decade that was largely defined
by World War II and the end of the Depression era. Life back there was
very much different than today, even given the various wars we find
ourselves in today. The general population is for the most part
unaffected by war today, which was not the case as some of the
personal
recollections from housewives who experienced the 1940's first hand. What were
people like?
On Bravery:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt in his inaugural address.
On
Beauty: "No matter how plain a woman may be if truth & loyalty are
stamped upon her face all will be attracted to her"
- Eleanor Roosevelt, distant cousin and wife of FDR.
 Rosie the Riveter: As Men were called up to service, women
were called upon to keep the factories pumping out supplies for the war
and the folks at home.
On Leadership: "One good head is better than a thousand strong
hands."
Soda Springs Sun, Soda Springs, Idaho October 31, 1940.
On
the Prospect of War: GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON SAYS
WAR PROPAGANDA
Never in our history has there been such open propaganda for
offensive action that would make unavoidable our prompt involvement in
war on the other side of the world - war indeed over a range at least as
wide as the vast stretch from the
Straits of
Malacca to the
Straits of Dover.
It might be wider. If we enter this war on the side of England, whatever
we call ourselves we shall be her ally. We must fight wherever defeat
threatens, or victory beckons. It now seems quite probable that the
direction of the war has turned from westward to southeastward. New
Theaters threaten in the Mediterranean, the Balkans, perhaps Persia, the
Persian gulf and even unto India. That is the British domain on which
"the
sun never sets." Propagandists now openly say that to preserve
democracy on earth we must preserve the British empire. Perhaps the
millions of conquered and exploited Black people in Africa and brown
people in Asia and Malaysia are their idea of democracy: but to try to
push this great, powerful and peaceful nation into wars to protect such
foreign possessions is hysteria that has broken all bonds of reason. These war-minded men advance measures which could take us into such
remote and sterile fields as "defense of America." They say that the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans are no longer barriers of defense, but
avenues of attack. Since Hitler can't cross twenty-odd miles of the
British channel to get at Britain with a land army, it is a safe bet
that he doesn't turn up his nose at the Atlantic ocean, even if these
potential architects of their country's disaster do so every day in
their war dancing madness. If we push our belated defense preparations
on land and seas as rapidly as possible, the chance of our involvement
in bloody war, no matter what may come, is too remote to consider. The
catastrophe of our involvement in war would not be merely the bloody
loss and danger to life and limb. It would permanently adjourn our free
economic system of private ownership and liberty of enterprise by so
burdening it with additional debt and taxes that the government would
control all private property and absorb all private income in the United
States. (Thursday, October 31, 1940
Soda Springs
Sun, Soda Springs, Idaho) View Original Article at
NewspaperArchive.com ***
REMEMBER THE 1940's?
Tell us about the '40s!
Courtmartial Of Ex Pearl Harbor Chiefs Is Asked. Congressmen
Demand Expulsion Of All 'Incompetents' For Debacle At Hawaii Naval Base.
There's Good Money in Pulpwood
 Our
Armed Forces Need Peeled Pulpwood NOW!
1945 |
The US Presidents
32nd President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933 - 1945
Party: Donkey Dem
Wife: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Why we like Him:
* Courage through adversity, considered his wife Eleanor a trusted
Advisor.
33rd President
Harry S. Truman
1945 - 1953
Party: GOP
Wife: Bess
Why we like him:
* President Harry Truman often ended his campaign talk by introducing
his wife as "the Boss" and his daughter, Margaret, as "the Boss's Boss,"
1940s Time Line
- 1941: Germany, Italy declare war on U.S.
- 1941: Author James Joyce dies
- 1941: Washington dam generates power
- 1941: Roosevelt signs Lend-Lease Act
- 1941: Churchill arrives at the White House
- 1941: Pearl Harbor attacked
- 1941: Radio stations change frequencies
- 1942: Japanese-Americans ordered to evacuate
- 1943: Extraterritorial rights abolished in China
- 1943: Escape attempt made at Alcatraz
- 1943: U.S. rations meat
- 1945: - General Patton is injured in crash
- 1945: Infantrymen find Hitler's treasure
- 1945: Egyptian premier is assassinated
- 1946: - 100 dead in hotel fire
- 1946: - Nazi doctors go on trial for human
experimentation
Other Sites about the 1940s
WHO WAS GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON?
People News
- Mrs. Emma Keilman, 1113 Sibley street, who is undergoing
treatment at McCleary's sanitarium In Exceinlor Springs, Mo., Is
getting along well now.
- Bill Hall of the Southmoor apartment hotel has returned
from a Christmas visit with his sister and her family.
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Beauty 
