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I have a note , written by my grandmother in , aroun 1930, that indicates paper was expensive for her. She was a farmers wife
by asdefghyk 2y ago
I have a note , written by my grandmother in , aroun 1930, that indicates paper was expensive for her. She was a farmers wife
- WalterBright 2y agoDuring WW2, the Germans started a large operation to print counterfeit 5 pound notes. The intent was to "bomb" them over England to bankrupt the currency. But the end of the war overtook the operation, and the notes were dumped in the nearby river. The locals fished the notes out and used them for TP. (The manufacture of TP was a casualty of priority war production.) "Money of Their Own" by Murray Bloom https://www.amazon.com/Money-Their-Own-Ingenious-Counterfeiters/dp/B0007HVXUC/ https://www.amazon.com/Money-Their-Own-Ingenious-Counterfeit... The BBC made a comedic miniseries about this, I forgot the name. All I remember is one of officers saying "if you don't do this, you'll be shot and then you'll be sorry!"
- bromuro 2y agoWhat is “TP”?
- slater 2y agoToilet paper.
- NoFunPedant 2y agoThe BBC miniseries was called "Private Schultz": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081919/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081919/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- WalterBright 2y agoThank you. I checked the library, ebay, and amazon for it - no luck!
- thombat 2y agoThat officer will have been Major Neuheim, a blustering and venial SS bureaucrat played with panache by Ian Richardson (not unlike his role as Mr Warrenn in "Brazil"). I'm also puzzled how little-known the series has become, since I remember it fondly.
- Bluestein 2y agoThen again ... might it have been depression-era conditions affecting her? PS. This tangentially raises an interesting question: Did the American Depression generally have worldwide economic consequences?
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- kjkjadksj 2y agoIt was a global economic depression, some nations harder hit than others, and only really recovered by nation states shifting to a centrally planned total war economy to kick start unprecedented investment in manufacturing and industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Socio-economic_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Socio-economi...