Your Chance of a Lifetime! (1941)

know [Music] today in the year of 1941 the people of the United States in the full Vigor of all their industrial power are engaged in a productive effort without precedent in any age or time an effort which is destined to to express to the utmost the will of the American people and their elected representatives to safeguard and protect their interests as a nation with more than $44 billion appropriated or authorized and already pouring into the nation's industrial system the giant basic Industries which have always been the source and the barometer of American Prosperity are operating in high gear three ships a day s days a week are expanding their plant facilities to meet even greater demand where am I going to get them I thought maybe you could help me out we're going crazy trying to get men we've been all over town and I don't believe there's 40 Electrical Workers left in the country and the government just dropped another $20 million order in our laps yeah well there's that the country's in for a whale of a boom for us businessmen well know that the nation's needs and government commitments extend many years [Music] ahead to fill the ranks of Labor in the nation's industrial boom hundreds of thousands of men and women of every age and experience are finding re-employment each passing month and with a definite shortage of skilled labor industrial Craftsmen can command top prices for their service serves greatest single economic effect of 1941's production program has been to swell the pay envelopes of wage earners all government figures indicate that 67% of all defense Appropriations will go into the pockets of working men and women and it's $40 a week honey the Jinx is broken now I'm going to be able to buy you some of those things have been promising you benefiting equally with basic industry are thousands of small PL plants scattered throughout the nation each fulfilling its essential role in America's allout effort already small communities across the length and breadth of the US are feeling the effects of an ever increasing [Music] Prosperity even in rural areas where the farmer has long felt himself to be at the bottom of the economic ladder there is more hope and confidence than there has been for a generation for in every part of the nation in every Walk of Life men and women are earning more are working more are finding that there is a job and a big job for each of them to do in the united effort of their country but above all the American people today are buying more wholesalers and retailers everywhere report a steady increase in their volume of business and for alert silver dealers as well as for the silver industry today's Prosperity is truly the chance of a lifetime for the American people are once more ready and eager for the Finer Things of Life which they can now afford once more face their future with courage and Resolute self-confidence he