Old magazines did not mince words. This September 1933 Fortune magazine told it like it was. American bicycles were mostly for kids’ recreation. German women, however, used them to go fetch vegetables.
Strap your scarves on and off to market with you, proles!
Meanwhile, in America, nearly nude (especially in 1933!) women cavorted through neighborhoods on handlebars. What fun The Depression was! How could these gals have known that in only three months, Prohibition would be repealed by FDR, and everyone could toss their moonshine and swig legit ale? Happy days are here again!
I Don't Get It 
Wow
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Interesting. The magazine is comparing children of the upper middle class with the poor folks of another country. You would think that they would celebrate the strength of the American economy after all it is Fortune.
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Cue the old joke…Indeed, the peasants are revolting.
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