Family Car Monday: With the war coming, Aunt Nan buys a new car
Going through my late aunt's pictures, we found this one with the note on the back: "With the war coming, I thought we'd better buy a new car before they stopped making them." If you have really studied American history from the late 1930's through the 1940's, you know that the nation slowly ramped up it's production of war goods even before December, 1941. The U.S. may not have been in the war, but it was involved in the war effort. American industry, after the Nazi's stormed into Western Europe in the fall of 1939, helped to support the United Kingdom in it's efforts to stave off Germany. My Aunt Nan, on the right with the white bow in her hair, was on high alert. She had reflexes like a cat when it came to getting news on the European front. In the 1940's she working as a durable goods bookkeeper for her employer. She saw that raw goods were getting harder and harder to get as world markets were cut off, and she also knew that...