Posted on 28 July 2010.
1942 was not the best of years for the United States, or the rest of the world. World War II had already been waging on for two whole years, and the U.S. was becoming more involved as the days went on. As a result, most of the manufacturing effort in the United States started switching [...]
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Posted on 07 June 2010.
With the great depression in the past and the rationing put into place during World War II no longer necessary, times were changing in 1947, especially for toys. The quality of toys improved during 1947, but for the most part they were the same toys kids were playing with before the way. Tags: wooden horses, [...]
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Posted on 29 May 2010.
In the 1940’s, the world was fighting its biggest war. In the U.S., people were forced to ration what they had to be able to supply the war effort with what it needed to be successful. The toys invented in the early part of the 1940’s reflect this sentiment, and in the late 1940’s, toys [...]
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