Seventeen-year-old Stanley Lieber is still working as an assistant at Time Comics, earning an $8 weekly salary.

If you say that you are an assistant, you can actually see it as an apprentice, and as an apprentice, of course, the salary will not be very high. What Stanley Lieber didn't expect was that he, an apprentice, would have the opportunity to get a private job.

That is to paint a propaganda poster for something called a hula hoop.

When Chen Qiang planned to make a promotional poster for the hula hoop, the first thing he thought of was the young man who loved superhero comics, so Chen Qiang found Stanley Lieber with the idea of trying it out.

Stanley Lieber drew a dozen posters for Chen Qiang to choose.

"This one is good, and this one is okay. This Stanley Lieber is quite talented, and he has only been in the comic book company for a few years, and he can draw such a good work. This poster is drawn, and there is a sense of reading Marvel Comics! Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

Chen Qiang picked a few that he thought were good, then picked up one of them and said; "This one needs to be revised. The woman dangling the hula hoop above is a little sexier and has a better figure. ”

"Need to be in better shape?" Stanley Lieber scratched his head, for this seventeen-year-old boy, he had never touched a woman at all, and Chen Qiang's request seemed to be a little difficult for him.

"How so? It's the kind of body that is very hot, bigger here, more warped here, thinner here, and shorter clothes here, which is the type that women envy and men are very impulsive. Chen Qiang explained.

Chen Qiang originally wanted to say that it was the kind of image similar to the comic book Wonder Woman, wearing more exposed flesh outside her underwear, and tightening her ass when she turned around and looked at the shorts, but if you think about it carefully, there was no Wonder Woman in 1940, even if you say Stanley Lieber, I don't know.

According to Chen Qiang's request, Stanley Lieber redrew a poster, and after spending it, Stanley Lieber himself began to blush, feeling as if he had drawn something unhealthy.

But Chen Qiang nodded with satisfaction, the image on the new poster is already very close to the Wonder Woman in the comics.

Stanley Lieber was puzzled, he didn't understand why such a woman would make Chen Qiang show pervert-like eyes.

Obviously, this 17-year-old boy does not yet understand the adult world. In the future, when he understands the adult world, even alien women, he can draw very sexy.

……

The Beckland Company began to produce hula hoops in full force.

The output of 20,000 a day can only produce 600,000 hula hoops a month, and you must know that when the hula hoops are first listed in the future, they bought 25 million in four months, and the output of 600,000 in this month is simply a drop in the bucket.

Chen Qiang wanted to save a few months of inventory and save more before selling, but he didn't have that much capital, so after only saving up two months of inventory, Chen Qiang planned to put the hula hoop on the market.

New York is the essence of the United States, and the market in New York is large enough, according to Chen Qiang's estimates, the New York market alone can absorb the hula hoop production capacity for these two months.

However, Chen Qiang still went to Washington, found a retailer in Washington, and sold some hula hoops in Washington in small quantities.

By the way, Chen Qiang also went to the embassy in the United States and visited Hu Shi.

Then from Hu Shi, Chen Qiangyou got a few bad news.

The first was the closure of the Yunnan-Vietnam railway by France.

The waters near China were already a playground for Japanese warships, so the Yunnan-Burma Highway and the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway were the channels for transporting supplies to China at this time, and the French closed the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, which had a great impact on China's supply of materials.

At this time, France had surrendered to Germany, and Japan and Germany were in an alliance, so after the Japanese spoke, Germany was embarrassed not to give face, and France after surrender was completely obedient to Germany, and it was normal to close the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.

Of course, Chongqing strongly protested, but at this time, France could not protect itself, and obviously could not control the affairs of the Far East.

Four days after France closed the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, the French Concession in Shanghai handed over Xujiahui to Japan.

At this time, the French Concession was no longer a safe haven in the war, due to the defeat and surrender of France, the French were unable to maintain the French Concession in Shanghai, at this time the French Concession was nominally, although it was still managed by the French, but in fact, those French people in the French Concession were all trembling and looking at the faces of the Japanese. The Japanese were also unimpeded in the French Concession, and Wang Puppet No. 76 people even entered the French Concession directly to arrest those anti-Japanese people. And the French can only turn a blind eye, after all, the French themselves are mud bodhisattvas who have crossed the river. Chongqing's agents in Shanghai could only hide in the public concession, after all, it was still the territory of the British, and the Japanese did not dare to reach out.

However, the Japanese really did attack the British.

On June 28, Japan directly cut off Hong Kong's ties with the mainland.

At this time, the South China Sea was full of Japanese warships cruising, and now it has cut off the connection between Hong Kong and the mainland, and Hong Kong has instantly become an isolated island. The British who were in Hong Kong were also feeling the pressure.

The main purpose of this move by the Japanese was to force the British to close the Yunnan-Burma Highway. After all, after the closure of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, the Yunnan-Burma Highway has become China's only international communication line, and once the Yunnan-Burma Highway is cut off again, then Chongqing will completely lose the source of external materials. At that time, no matter how much money the US Embassy borrows and buys more guns and ammunition, there will be no way to ship it to China.

In order to alleviate the situation in Hong Kong, Britain and Japan signed the "Anglo-Japanese Agreement on the Closure of the Yunnan-Burma Highway", after Britain closed the Yunnan-Burma Highway, China's only international communication line was also interrupted, and the War of Resistance against Japan entered the most difficult moment.

Soon after, the Vietnamese governor of France would allow the Japanese to land in Vietnam, and the Japanese would open up a battlefield in the southwest from which they could launch a direct attack on China.

On the European side, de Gaulle, who had fled to France, became the leader of the Free France and led his Free French army to continue the fight. On the other side of France, the old marshal Philippe Pétain became the new prime minister of France, a meritorious figure who surrounded France during the First World War and became a traitor in the eyes of the French.

And for the United States, 1940 was another election year. It has become an open secret that Roosevelt wanted to run his third term as never before, and Americans know that Roosevelt will continue to run for re-election, but it has not yet been announced.

Roosevelt in 1940 was far less prestigious than in 1936, and there were many people who did not want Roosevelt to be the third president, after all, no president had ever served a third term in a row.

In this case, the Republican Party nominated Wendell Wilkie as the Republican Party's presidential nominee.

Wendell Wilkie is an ancestral lawyer, and his parents were both lawyers.

Wendell Wilkie had fought in World War I as a young man, but when he boarded the ship to France, it was September 1918, and when he arrived in France, Germany had surrendered, so Wendell Wilkie had not actually been on the battlefield.

Wendell Wilkie was a Democrat until 1939, serving as the Democratic Party's representative to Congress and also donating $150 to Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. However, in 1939, Wendell Wilkie changed himself to the Republican Party and became a Republican senator, and then became a dark horse in the Republican Party's presidential nomination and became the Republican Party's presidential candidate.

I have to say that this wave of operations of the Republican Party caught Roosevelt by surprise. Wendell Wilkie is the Republican presidential nominee, and those Republican supporters will definitely vote for him, and since Wendell Wilkie was once a Democrat, there are many supporters of the Democratic Party who support Wendell Wilkie, so Wendell Wilkie can also get some Democratic votes.

Roosevelt reacted quickly, and after the Republican Party introduced Wendell Wilkie, Roosevelt finally announced his candidacy, and won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination without any suspense.

At this time, the Americans began to be busy with the election, and the American media was full of news about the election, and the war in Europe seemed to disappear from the sight of the Americans for a while.

……

Chen Qiang's hula hoop is finally about to be officially launched.

At a school in New York, on the door of a small shop not far from the school gates, there is a brand new poster showing a boy in suspender jeans dangling a hula hoop.

It was school time when a little boy walked up to the front of the small shop and looked at the poster curiously.

"Want to try our new product?" The clerk greeted with a smile.

The boy nodded, and the clerk handed him a hula hoop.

"Put it in the waist position, just turn it like this, yes, twist the waist, turn up, then twist the waist, don't stop, you see, turn up!"

The little boy shook the hula hoop on his waist, and as the hula hoop rotated in circles, the sand inside made a "rustling" sound.

"What kind of toy is that?"

"It's a circle, and it can turn around on the waist!"

"Looks so interesting."

The surrounding children gathered around, and then looked at the little boy who was shaking the hula hoop, and his eyes were full of eager colors.

Soon, the children flocked into the small shop to pick up the colorful hula hoops.

The shopkeeper looked at the hula hoop, the price of 69 cents, and as if he suddenly remembered something, he picked up a price tag as fast as he could, and wrote the price of 75 cents on it.

Ten minutes later, the shopkeeper looked at the children who were queuing up to pay the money, and hurriedly wrote a price tag for 79 cents.

The children got the hula hoop and walked out of the store to try it out, and all of a sudden, the small shop was full of children dangling the hula hoop, which attracted more children to come over.

The store owner wrote a price tag for 89 cents.

In the evening, when the small shop closed, the shopkeeper counted the money and looked at the hula hoop shelf, which was now empty, except for the 95-cent tag.

"Hey, if I knew that like this, it should be sold for $1!" The shopkeeper let out a long sigh of pain, he felt that he had lost a lot.

……

In another block with a high concentration of office buildings, the shop here has another poster.

On the poster, a man in a shirt and trousers is shaking a hula hoop, and the background of the poster is in the office, and there is a large line at the bottom of the poster: Anytime, anywhere, enjoy fitness!

A man in a suit and carrying a briefcase walked into the store, pointed to the hula hoop on the shelf, and asked, "Is this the new gym equipment?" ”

"Yes sir, and this gym equipment is not limited by the venue, it can be used anytime, anywhere, even if you are in the office." The clerk hurriedly introduced.

"Can I give it a try?" The man in the suit asked.

"Absolutely." The clerk took a sample and gave it to the man in the suit to try on.

The man in the suit who played with the hula hoop for the first time obviously did not have the physical flexibility of a child, perhaps because he sat in the office too much on weekdays, his body movements were a little stiff, and the movements of shaking the hula hoop were also a little clumsy, but he quickly learned how to use the hula hoop.

But by the time the man in the suit could skillfully shake the hula hoop, he was already sweating profusely.

The man in the suit wiped the sweat on his head, which also made him feel that the exercise effect of the hula hoop was very good.

He looked at the selling price next to him, and then said without hesitation, "I want one." ”

……

A young girl is standing in front of a poster of a beautiful girl with a curvaceous figure, dangling a hula hoop.

The girl painted on the poster is convex and backward, especially the waist is very thin, with the aesthetic vision of American men, this woman's convex and backward waist and thin figure is definitely the type that wants to commit a crime.

Below the poster is a promotional slogan: "Let you have exquisite curves".

"This thing called a hula hoop, can you slim down your waist?" The young girl in front of the poster involuntarily touched her belly.

Although this young girl has a very well-proportioned figure, at this time she still feels that there is too much fat on her waist.

"It's just a few tens of cents, and it's worth it to be able to get a figure like the one on the poster." The young girl walked into the store without hesitation.

……

Beckland Company, Chen Qiang directly pushed a suitcase in front of Little Beckland.

"Mr. Chen, what is this?" Little Beckland asked, puzzled.

Chen Qiang opened the suitcase, and all the green flowers in it were US dollars.

"Mr. Beckland, I want you to open two more production halls." Chen Qiang said.

Little Beckland was slightly startled, and then asked, "That hula hoop of yours, sales are very good?" ”

Chen Qiang didn't hide it, but nodded: "Yes, the sales are very good, and they will be out of stock soon!" ”

Little Beckland wants to say "this is impossible", after all, in the past two months, Little Beckland has produced a full 1.2 million hula hoops for Chen Qiang, and now it still maintains an output of 20,000 per day.

However, the box full of dollars told Little Beckland very clearly that what Chen Qiang said was true, if it wasn't for the sale of a lot of hula hoops and the return of a large amount of funds, how could Chen Qiang have so much money!

"It's just a plastic ring, is that really that fun?" Little Beckland thought inexplicably.

Little Beckland sent Chen Qiang away, then ran to the production workshop and picked up a freshly made hula hoop.

"Is this stuff really that interesting? Will people be willing to pay a few dozen cents to buy? Little Beckland pondered as he put the hula hoop around his waist and tried to give it a try.

Then little Beckland felt that he really couldn't stop playing hula hoops!

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