Seventy years ago this month, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ran this photo in its February 1940 issue as part of an article titled “Rubber: From Trees to Tires and Toys.” The caption ran as follows: |
Friday, February 05, 2010
From Eric Beheim
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You can see earlier Zingaros selling balloons on the original Ringling show in early route book photos.
The Japanese nation should have realized what they were against in 1941; Americans were using a relatively rare and expensive commodity, rubber, to make and sell as toys.
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