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December 15, 2011 02:39 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6sKrKsyGXs0/a-christmastime-great-depressi.html
A Christmastime Great Depression-era Buck Rogers Ray Gun price war story
The National Air and Space Museum has a cool post up about the first metal Buck Rogers gun: the XZ-31 Rocket Pistol, produced in 1934 by the Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan. "That toy, which was wildly successful, even sparked a Christmastime price war between two of the biggest department stores in the country [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6sKrKsyGXs0/a-christmastime-great-depressi.html
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