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Beer In Ads #1303: One-Sixth Of A Nation Blowing Away!

September 4, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is another one from the United Brewers Industrial Foundation, again from 1939. This was well before the “Beer Belongs” series, and just before World War II. That “One-Sixth of a Nation Blowing Away!” is referring to the dust bowl of the midwest. But not to worry, it can all be saved, thanks to beer taxes — “a million dollars a day!”

USBF-1939-dust-bowl

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Brewers Association, History, Taxes



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