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Some WWII brides made their wedding dresses out of parachutes. |
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| Another dress acquired by the San Diego Air and Space Museum has a similar backstory: The parachute used to make it saved the life of groom Chuck Martin during a training flight on a bomber at the end of the war. His bride, Carolyn, altered it herself using the skills she learned in an eighth grade sewing class. A more elaborate dress in storage at the National Museum of the United States Air Force was made from strips of nine different parachutes used in combat. Of course, sometimes the parachute fabric (usually nylon) was simply what was available — but it still made for a good story. When two Holocaust survivors got married in 1946 at a displaced persons camp run by Allied forces in Celle, Germany, groom Ludwig Friedman purchased a parachute for fabric, and bride Lilly Lax hired a seamstress using her cigarette rations. The dress was worn by two more brides in similar camps afterward, and is now among the artifacts at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. | |
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Cheetos were made from surplus war rations. | |||||||||
| During World War II, the U.S. military was looking for any way to cut down on shipping costs for war rations. In 1943, a USDA scientist did what was previously thought impossible: dehydrating natural, fatty cheese, making it easier to send across the ocean. After the war, the military was left with a bunch of leftover dried food, which it offloaded to private companies. One of the corporations to take advantage of the processed food fire sale was Frito, now Frito-Lay. In 1948 it rolled out one of the most famous uses of dried cheese to date: Cheetos. | |||||||||
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