Decade - 1940s

Through stelth and guile

In the 1940's a gallon of milk costs $0.34

J. Compton, Sons & Webb Ltd. is a British manufacturer of military equipment for the armed forces (Army, Navy and RAF).

According to Ronald O. John, "The Vintage Era of Golf Collectibles, Identification and Value Guide', published 2002, on page 88 & 89 outlines Textolite, a composite materials molded by General Electric for Schavolite Golf, New York, NY circa 1934. Drivers, shown: approx. value $55.00 each, set at $275.00. Also Schavolite driver & putter, shown: Approx. value $85.00 to $100.00 each. The book has some very nice photographs, as examples, for reference. Please see www.collectorbooks.com for details on purchasing the book.

This Group showed that Germany could have pride in themselves and to restore Honour into the Fatherland. The National socialist have brought both an unimaginable amount of jobs which inclined an almost unheard of rise in the economy. They also established a military force along with dozens of technological advancements which led to things like Ipods, better radio frequencies, night vision, jet engine technology etc. Although not directly responsible for the technology they did fund certain programs which resulted in the research or the previously listed items.

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The Bob's cola company was open from 1947 to 1951 and the bottles are quite hard to find. In excellent condition it could be worth up to $100.

The cigarette lighter license was introduced by the Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Salazar in 1937 as a means of guarding against loss of revenue from the state-owner match industry. The cost of a license was 48.5 Escudos (about 70p) a year, with on-the-spot fines issued to people using lighters without a license. In 1962, which was the last year complete records were kept, 87,381 licenses were issued, but shortly after, the lighter license law was relaxed and it was abandoned completely by the end of the 1960s.

as he was in the infantry he would have had an M1 garand rifle

But A. Murphy was slight-of-build (5'6", 140lbs.), would he have maybe been issued an M1 carbine? Is there any military or scholarly documentation?

after further checking I noted Murphy did have a M1 carbine during the war. Also, weapons were not issued base on weight or height. Officers and NCO were issued carbines in lieu of the 45 pistol.......whereas infantrymen were issued M1 garands.............

But Murphy began as an infantryman, so did he have a Garand at that time? He eventually received a battlefield commission to 2nd Lt. (late 1944?), but had already served in Sicily, at Anzio, and in the Anvil-Dragoon landings in southern France in mid-August, 1944: did he use a Garand in those actions? The Garand would be the superior weapon at longer ranges; it was also more reliable than the M1 carbine. I will ask a retired Army Col. I know (who used Garand, M1 carbine, M3 "greasegun," M14, and M16A1) whether the stature of the soldier was taken into account in issuing weapons. I know Murphy was rejected by the Marines, Navy, and Army (initially) for being too small. At that point he was 5'5", 110lbs. But he had extensive experience with rifles as a young hunter in Depression-era Texas, and was an excellent shot.

For clarification I served 22 years of service with the US Army. When I entered serice I weighted about 135 pounds. I was issued an M1 garand, not a carbine. I also fought in Korea 1951, and I still had an m1 garand (although I was a little heaver). I will say again, size and weight had nothing to due with the issuing of a weapon. Infantryman were issued M1 garands, certain crews, tank, artillery, mortor squads, machingun crews, etc, were issued the 45 pistol or a carbine. And, carbines and 45 pistols were also issued to officers and NCO's. It was job assignment not weight whereby which type of weapon was issued..............I will add that an infantryman always preferred the m1 garand over the carbine because it shot further and killed more effectively. I'd be glad to answer any question you may have on this matter in case you cannot contact the Colonel.....

P.S. as a veteran I am well aware of Lt Murphy's exploits in WW2.......

Well, as a battle-experienced veteran, I will take your word for it re type of weapon issued to new infantrymen. I know motorpool, tank crews, and other troops performing certain tasks were given shorter, more compact personal defense weapons. In the (first) Gulf War, truck-drivers were even issued dusted-off .45 greaseguns.

Re A. Murphy's battlefield commission: it was given on 22Feb.1945 (2nd Lt.), not late 1944, about a month after the action cited in his Medal of Honor award. Thank you for your input.

My friend who was an Army Col., had an M1 carbine with full-auto capability. He said it was prone to jamming. He said the greasegun was too heavy, but good for putting a lot of large caliber bullets down-range. He has great affection for the M1 Garand. I have yet to ask him his opinion of the M16A1.

by the time the m16 hit the field I was about to retire so can't talk to much about that piece. Can relate to the grease gun. It could be fired with one arm and stay on target, I found.

The M2 carbine could fire single or auto. It had to have the 30 round clip or it would be dry after couple trigger pulls. The 30 cal. light machine gun needed a nack to shoot slow. The right hand was kept flat in front of trigger then swept back and forth, creating short bursts of fire. The 50 cal heavy machine gun had a slow rate of fire and somewhat easy to control fire direction and keep on target area...........Never played with mortars.......or artillery.

Thank you very much for this additional information. Did you find the Garand to be an excellent combat weapon in Korea? Any problems keeping up rate of fire with 8 round enbloc clips? How many clips would you take with you on your person into the field? Would the clips mainly be in cloth bandoliers? Or in ammo-sacks? Or both? I am sure you also got resupplied in the field.

What is your opinion of the BAR? I know its HEAVY, and has only a 20 round magazine; but I also know it is an excellent weapon (like all of John Browning's designs), and was used extensively in Korea, often in urban combat.

I owned an AR-15 civilian version of the M16A2, with a heavy barrel. I found it quite fun for plinking. It was extremely accurate; light-weight; and, in my experience, reliable, with low recoil so that many rounds could be fired quickly but accurately. Of course I cleaned it after each use. But the .223 round, while deadly, does not have the killing-power and penetration capability (into fortifications or dense jungle) of the .30-06.

Again, many thanks for your combat-veteran's feedback...I value it highly. (And thanks for your service to the USA.)

My next rifle purchase will be a Garand.

The United States used the first Atomic Bomb in Japan and the war ended abruptly.

Denmark tried to stay neutral during the second World War. Unfortunately the Germans decided to invade anyway, and without warning. As a result, Denmark was completely unprepared, when Germany presented the Danish government with an ultimatum on April 9, 1940. They accepted under protest. 4 hours went by from the start of the attack to the capitulation, and a few units were engaged in battle. So you could say that Denmark surrendered after 4 hours of war, although the resistance was active throughout the war, particular from 1942 and onwards.

The Danish government continued to operate under a "cooperation policy", and successfully refused to send Danish Jews to Germany for three years. When the Danish government resigned in 1943, almost every Jewish Dane was rescued to Sweden. Although Sweden initially refused to accept any Jewish refugees, physicist Niels Bohr was supposed to go America and work on the Manhattan Project through Sweden. When he arrived in Sweden he refused to board the plane waiting to take him to America, unless the Swedish officials announced that all Swedish borders would be open to any Jews arriving.

The rescue of the Jews was more of a collective effort, than the work of individuals. In some cases Danes simply looked in the phone book for people with Jewish sounding names and called up and warned them.

In German "Auschwitz", in Polish beginning with O.. svice (??? ) was a large extermination camp - what I heard.

Having the right name you can check wikipedia or google.

No, he didn't. His name was cleared out in 2014 in the court of Alcolou South Carolina. Whoever killed those two girls-the real murderer remains unknown. The real murderer could've been more older than George and more stronger. The real murderer could've died after Stinney's execution by a natural cause and somehow never confessed on his deathbed. George Stinney was short for his age and weighed only 90 pounds. There was no absolute way he did those murders.

No. The dancing Ross Sisters were stars of the 1940s.

Betsy Ann Ross (Aggie) died in 1996, age 70.

Vida "Vicki" Ross (Maggie) died in 2002, age 74.

Dixie Jewell Ross (Elmira) died in 1963, age 33.

They were all in their teens during their peak popularity, and all used altered identities (other sisters' names) to enable them to meet age restrictions.

$ .99 cents a gallon

Approx. 3,500-4,000 lbs

Audi R8s ,corvetes, mini vans and golf carts.

They were being made in the early 1950's. How much earlier or later than 1952, I don't know. But they were made in 1952-53.

The US average in 1940 was 18 cents per gallon. That would be about $3.02 per gallon in today's dollars (2014).

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The team signed baseballs from the 1940's are not as rare as you might think. Team signed baseballs fron the 1940's in excellent plus condition might be on the rare side. The players in the day signed baseball as often or more than the player today. It was part of the job of being a ballplayer. unlike the players of today they did not get paid for it. Baseballs from the early to mid 1940's sell at a lower value than the baseballs in the later 1940's. most Major League stars were off fighting in the war.

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In 1944, gas was 21 cents per gallon in some places in the USA.

No, he did not! Captain Bleigh sailed the bounty. I (the real Captain Blye) sailed the sportfishing vessel Captain Blye out of Cape May, NJ and Stuart, Fl.

So, there you have it!