1939 & 1940 CHRISTMAS COOKY [COOKIES] BOOKS (WE Energies - Wisconsin Electric Christmas Cookie Books Series) : Recent B&W Reprint: WE Energies - Wisconsin Electric Christmas Cookie Books Series

Home Service Bureau - Wisconsin Electric Power Company

Edité par Keener Books Historic Reprints - Wisconsin Home Service Bureau - The Electric Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1939

31 pages: 8.5 x 11 in.: Vol. 1939: KB#019739: BRAND NEW, In Unread Condition. This is a Black and White REPRINT of the original 1939 Cookbook & the 1940 Supplement, printed on single-sided Heavy 24# Paper and 3-Hole punched, for convenient storage in any 8.5"x11" 3-Hole Binder of your choice). They are initially provided in a plastic report-holder sleeve (see photo), which can be removed if desired. The 1939 has 27 Total pages, plus a Full Index of OVER 160 Recipes, and the 1940 Supplement has only 4 Pages (with 22 Recipes). Sometime later, Wisconsin Electric changed the 1939 Index to read "5th Edition-25,000-Nov.1940". Scarce, Out Of Print, Book; this is now a pdf document in the public domain. "Suggestions for Making and Decorating Christmas Cookies and Fruit Cake and Plum Pudding Recipes. Can you not recall them now, those glorious autumnal sunsets of your childhood? 'Santa Claus is Baking!'"During 1939: Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 and Superman (comic book) began publication. The first Little League Baseball game was played. MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz, with Judy Garland, premiered in Hollywood. Due to WWII, SS Athenia, a British ocean liner was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Irish coast with 30 Americans onboard dying. However, later this year, the US declared its neutrality in the war. The film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premiered in Washington, D.C. and later, the four-hour (longest yet) film Gone with the Wind, premiered in Atlanta, GA. During 1940: The first McDonald's Restaurant opened. U.S. President Roosevelt, addressing Congress, asked for $900 million, to finance building 50,000+ airplanes per year. The first Dairy Queen opened. Due to WWII, America and Great Britain agreed that 50 U.S. destroyers, needed for escort work, would be transferred to Great Britain. In return, America gained 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda. Also, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. During this year, the US imposed embargoes on high-octane aviation fuel, steel and iron shipments to Japan. N° de réf. du vendeur 019739

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Titre : 1939 & 1940 CHRISTMAS COOKY [COOKIES] BOOKS ...
Éditeur : Keener Books Historic Reprints - Wisconsin Home Service Bureau - The Electric Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Date d'édition : 1939
Reliure : Soft Cover
Etat : New
Edition : First Edition: Recent Reprint.