Your Brain on Facts

Making Do (ep. 104)


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While we're sheltering in place from the pandemic, we look at how people dealt with the intense shortages of the Great Depression and WWII.
02:05 Aunt Sammy
04:00 Eleanor Roosevelt
07:00 Sample menu
Emmymadeinjapan's Hard Times series
09:08 Foods still with us
12:26 Flour sack dresses
14:17 Gratitude and TRIVIA CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT
16:00 Promo - Jason & Mindy
16:48 US rationing
18:55 UK rationing
24:00 "Dig for Victory" and the British Restaurant
26:55 "Beauty is Your Duty"
29:00 Clothing rations
Music by Kevin MacLeod and the US Marine Band
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