Fibber McGee & Molly radio show 12/8/42 Women Are Taking Over

[@stanwolenski9541]

My mom worked as a machinist at GeneralDynamics during the war.

[@clarklk]

May I have ask, what city was she in? I'm fascinated with the Homefront during WW2.

[@stanwolenski9541]

@@clarklk I am not sure, possibly Bayonne, Jersey City or in some other town in Hudson County NJ. Not sure if they ever said. They meaning my father who also worked there. Of course I was not as interested when I was a child.

[@georgenotsmith2804]

They don't make them like this anymore. And what a complete shame.

[@markmunson2684]

Pure, clean, and funny. And the commercials are short and part of the show.

[@pj2334]

This was during WW2 so a lot of women had to join the work force bc many of the men were in the military. I can see this was something that may have been hard to deal with for some ppl. 😂

[@artmoss6889]

When Fibber says contemptuously, "It's like building a million dollar laboratory to split an atom," he has no idea that the U.S. had only recently begun the Manhattan Project, the multi billion dollar project to create a bomb that would change history by splitting the atom.

[@TowGunner]

I immediately had the same thought! A couple of months before D-Day the solution words 'Gold' and 'Sword' (codenames for the two D-Day beaches assigned to the British) and 'Juno' (codename for the D-Day beach assigned to Canada) appeared in The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions.

[@artmoss6889]

@@TowGunner I remember reading about that crossword incident in Stephen Abrose' book on D-Day. I believe the crossword editor was investigated for possible espionage

[@clarklk]

My thought was the date 12/8/42 must not be correct. This must have been after the bomb dropped to end the war.

[@artmoss6889]

@clarklk I believe your date is correct. Don Quinn, the writer for FM&M, probably was inspired by a historic event that took place on December 2, 1942, (six days before the show's broadcast date) when a team led by Enrico Fermi produced the first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago. This multi-million dollar experiment was called the Chicago Pile, and information obtained from this event was essential to the success of the Manhattan Project.

[@kaybutcher5719]

Love it.