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Gina Votti
Don Gentry It was on this day in
1942 that the film Casablanca had its first
showing. The event took place at the Hollywood Theater in New
York City. It starred Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.
Casablanca is the story of a cynical freedom
fighter-turned-nightclub owner, Rick Blaine, an American expatriate living
in Casablanca and staying out of politics, staying on the good side of the
local police chief. Then Victor Laszlo, a leader of the European
resistance movement, turns up in town and needs Rick's help. He brings his
wife, Ilsa, who turns out to be Rick's former lover, a woman who ran away
from Rick and broke his heart. Rick has two visas to get out of occupied
Casablanca, and he considers escaping with Ilsa, but gives his visas to
Victor and Ilsa. The film did pretty well and got decent reviews.
The New Yorker magazine called it "pretty tolerable." But it won
the Academy Award for Best Picture, and now it's one of the best-loved
films of all time, and one of the most quoted. Some of the famous lines in Casablanca
include, "Here's looking at you, kid." And, "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in
all the world, she walks into mine." And, "We'll always have Paris." And, "Round up the usual suspects." And, "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship."
Don Gentry It was on this day in 1942 that
President Roosevelt announced that the United States would begin a
national gas rationing campaign on December 1st. All Americans
had to display a sticker in their car window saying what category of gas
ration they had. Everyone started out at "A," which got people about four
gallons a week. Local rationing boards were set up to assign a "B" or "C"
ration to people who needed more gas if they could prove it was necessary
for their work. The campaign made propaganda posters that asked, "Is This Trip
Necessary?" or said, "When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler! Join a
Car-Sharing Club TODAY!" Along with the gas rations, the national speed
limit was set at 35 mph. The gas rationing wasn't a result of a gas shortage. The United States
was self-sufficient in oil and was actually a major exporter of petroleum.
But the Japanese had taken over the rubber plantations in the Dutch East
Indies that produced 90 percent of America's raw rubber, and there was no
synthetic rubber. The government was afraid that if everyone kept driving,
they would wear out tires that couldn't be replaced. The factories and the
entire war effort would come to a halt. So the United States' first
national gas rationing campaign was a roundabout way to conserve rubber.
The gas ration continued until August of 1945. |