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To: Crim

Just imagine how far you could have gotten with a case of Klondike bars...


5 posted on 03/02/2015 10:48:56 PM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: baltimorepoet

Just imagine how far you could have gotten with a case of Klondike bars...
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My father was an inspector for Marshall Plan goods based out of the Brooklyn army base... he spent most of the 1950’s in Europe ... YOU ARE 100% CORRECT ,,, with basically ANY trade goods , particularly food items you could have ANYTHING you wanted... a canned ham would be like a ticket to the Playboy mansion... and don’t forget this was after WW2 ,, there was a man shortage in England and Germany,,, in England at least (unofficially) it was not uncommon to have multiple wives ...


17 posted on 03/02/2015 11:15:57 PM PST by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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