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“You’re in luck with Libby’s”

Libby’s canned vegetables

“General Motors & General Motors Dealers: Working together for total victory” (1942)

“No more radios! Remember–there aren’t going to be any more radios built until after the war. So take good care of the one you have.” (1942)

“Telephone lines are life lines. They carry communications so vital to our expanding defense program” (1941)

“They’re the hard-riding, swift-striking scouts of the mechanized forces” (1944)

“No wonder women approve of men who shave with Barbasol!” (1945)

“Work with a wartime De Soto” (1944)

“We pull a couple of tugs out of our ship’s hold, just like that” (1944)

“This is no ordinary trip. It may be their last in the USA until the end of the war.” (1944?)

“More than 2 million General Electric motors will join the armed services this year” (1944) 

“With one shot he knocked out the fort, and the Germans surrendered” (1944)

“In this process of creating MORE GOODS FOR MORE PEOPLE AT LESS COST, which has made the American living standard the highest in the world, GE scientists, engineers, and workmen have played an important part” (1939)

“With electric lights, Josephine’s granddaughter doesn’t have to fill and clean lamps. Her electric cleaner makes it unnecessary to tear up the carpets every spring and lug them out and beat them. … Even if electricity’s contributions to better living had stopped here, we’d still recognize it as one of the greatest benefits of our century.” (1930s)

“What makes the wheels go round? Wheels that … make our paper, print our newspapers. Today the answer is electricity.” (1930s)

“Saving lives with bullet-sealing fuel cells” (1940s)

“Attention! All you men in uniform…You know that Ice Cream is the finest treat you can buy–just another of the good old USA’s gifts to a troubled world” (1942)