Menthol, Eucalyptus…. and Cocaine

More as an amused take on The Great War being turned into WWI by the even bigger Great War that turned up twenty years later, there has been Interwebby Thingy chatter about Great Depression II.

But focusing more on WWII and the sacrifices made caused me to come across this wonderful piece of American wartime art / propaganda below – possibly from one of the same artists who did Rosie The Riveter (they were all already employed by FDR as propaganda artists for the New Deal).

How true could this become? Of course in that situation the idea was to focus all resources on winning a traditional war, whereas a post COVID-19 NZ economy will be screaming for money to be spent in classic Keynesian fashion, so the exact opposite of “Me Travel?” is probably going to be recommended.

Meanwhile, here’s the great Norman Rockwell’s image of “Rosie the Riveter” from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943.

 

And finally, here’s one of that war’s sweethearts, Gracie Fields, singing about what she’s doing to build the Thingumabob that’s going to win the war.

Perhaps a ska version with Gwen Stefani, set on a vaccine production line is next?