Stanley Lieber, seventeen years old, is also an assistant at Time Comics, with a weekly salary of $8.

It can actually be regarded as an apprentice, but as an apprentice, the salary is certainly not very high. What Stanley Lieber did not expect was that he, an apprentice, had the opportunity to receive private work.

That is to draw a promotional poster for something called a hula hoop.

When Chen Qiang was planning 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 more than a dozen posters and asked Chen Qiang to choose from.

"This one is pretty good, this one is OK. Stanley Lieber is quite talented. He has been able to draw such a good work in just a few years after joining the comic company. This poster is painted with a sense of déjà vu like reading Marvel comics!" Chen Qiang said in his heart.

Chen Qiang picked up a few pictures that he thought were pretty good, then picked up one of them and said, "This one needs to be modified. The woman with a hula hoop on it should be sexy and has a better figure."

"Where is better figure?" Stanley Lieber scratched his head. For this seventeen-year-old boy, he had never touched a woman much. Chen Qiang's request seemed a bit difficult for him.

"How to say it? It's the kind of hot figure, which is bigger, more upright, thinner, shorter clothes here, which is the type that women are envious of and men are impulsive when they see it." Chen Qiang explained.

Chen Qiang originally wanted to say that it was the kind of image that looked like the comic Wonder Woman, wearing underwear that showed off her flesh, and when she turned around, she looked at her shorts tightened her butt eggs. But after thinking about it carefully, there was no Wonder Woman in 1940, even if Stanley Lieber said that.

According to Chen Qiang's request, Stanley Lieber drew a new poster. After spending it, Stanley Lieber began to blush, feeling that he had painted something unhealthy.

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

Stanley Lieber looked puzzled. He didn't understand why such a woman would make Chen Qiang show a wolf-like look.

Obviously, this 17-year-old boy cannot understand the adult world. In the future, even alien women can draw very sexy.

...

Beckland began to produce hula hoops with all its strength.

A production of 20,000 yuan a day can only produce 600,000 hula hoops a month. You should know that when the hula hoops were first launched in the future, I bought 25 million in four months. The production of 600,000 yuan this month is simply a drop in the bucket.

Chen Qiang really wanted to save a few months of inventory, save more and then sell it, but he didn't have that much capital, so after only two months of inventory, Chen Qiang planned to push the hula hoop onto the market.

New York is the essence of the United States, and the New York market is large enough. According to Chen Qiang's estimate, the New York market alone can digest the hula hoop production capacity in the past two months.

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

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

Then from Hu Shi, Chen Qiang got some bad news.

First, France closed the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.

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

At this time, France had surrendered to Germany, and Japan and Germany were in an alliance. So when the Japanese spoke, Germany was embarrassed to not give face. After surrendering, France completely obeyed Germany, and closing the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was normal.

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

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

At this time, the French Concession was no longer a safe haven in the war. Due to France's defeat and surrender, the French were no longer able to maintain the French Concession in Shanghai. Although the French Concession was nominally managed by the French Concession, in fact, the French concession in the French Concession were all trembling and looking at the Japanese's faces. The Japanese were also unobstructed in the French Concession, and the people of Wang Puppet No. 76 directly entered the French Concession to arrest those anti-Japanese people. The French could only ignore it. After all, the French themselves were all clay Buddhas crossing the river. The agents in Chongqing lined up in Shanghai could only hide in the public concession. After all, it was still the territory of the British, and the Japanese dared not reach out.

However, the Japanese really attacked the UK.

On June 28, Japan directly cut off the ties between Hong Kong and the mainland.

At this time, Japanese warships were cruising on the South China Sea, and now the connection between Hong Kong and the mainland has been cut off, and Hong Kong has instantly become an isolated island. The British who were guarding Hong Kong also felt much pressure.

The Japanese's main purpose of this move was to force Britain to close the Yunnan-Burma Highway. After all, after the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was closed, the Yunnan-Burma Highway became China's only international transportation line. Once the Yunnan-Burma Highway is cut off, Chongqing will completely lose the source of external materials. At that time, no matter how much money the US Embassy borrows or buys guns and ammunition, it will not be able to transport it to China.

At this time, Britain was already overwhelmed by Germany. In order to alleviate the situation in Hong Kong, Britain and Japan signed the "Agreement on the Enclosure of the Yunnan-Burma Highway in the UK and Japan". After Britain closed the Yunnan-Burma Highway, China's only international transportation line was also interrupted, and the War of Resistance Against Japan entered the most difficult time.

Soon after, the French governor of Vietnam would allow the Japanese army to land in Vietnam. At that time, the Japanese would open up a battlefield in the southwest and launch a direct attack from Vietnam to China.

In Europe, Charles de Gaulle, who fled to France, became the leader of Free France and led his Free French army to continue fighting. On the other side of France, the old Marshal Philippe Betten became the new French Prime Minister, a meritorious figure who surrounded France during World War I became a traitor in the eyes of the French.

For the United States, 1940 was another election year. Roosevelt wanted to conduct his third term unprecedentedly, which has become an open secret. Americans all know that Roosevelt would continue to run for re-election, but it has not been announced yet.

Roosevelt in 1940 was far less famous than in 1936, and many people did not want Roosevelt to be the third president. After all, no president would have been able to be the third president in a row before.

In this case, the Republican Party nominated Wendell Wilkie as the Republican presidential candidate.

Wendell Wilkie is a ancestral lawyer, and his parents are also lawyers.

Wendell Wilkie participated in World War I when she was young, but when he boarded a steamship to France, it was already September 1918. When he arrived in France, Germany surrendered, so in fact Wendell Wilkie had never been on the battlefield.

Before 1939, Wendell Wilkie had always been a Democrat. He served as the Democratic Party's representative in Congress and donated $150 for Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. However, in 1939, Wendell Wilkie changed himself to the Republican Party and became a Republican Congressional senator, and then broke out as a dark horse in the Republican presidential nomination and became the Republican presidential candidate.

It has to be said that this wave of Republican operations caught Roosevelt off guard. As the Republican presidential candidate, Republican supporters will definitely vote for him. Since Wendell Wilkie was once a Democrat, many of the Democratic supporters supported Wendell Wilkie, so Wendell Wilkie can also get some Democratic votes.

Roosevelt also responded quickly. After the Republican Party launched Wendell Wilkie, Roosevelt finally announced his candidacy and was nominated for president within the Democratic Party without any suspense.

At this time, Americans began to work hard on elections, and American media were full of news about elections. The war in Europe seemed to disappear from the Americans' sight for a moment.

...

Chen Qiang’s hula hoop is finally going to be officially launched.

A new poster was posted on the gate of a small shop not far from the school gate. A boy in suspenders was shaking a hula hoop.

It was time for school to finish, a little boy walked to the door of the small shop and looked at the poster curiously.

"Do you want to try our new product?" the clerk greeted with a smile.

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

"Put it on your waist, just turn it like this, right, twist your waist, turn it, then twist your waist, don't stop, look, turn it!"

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

"What toy is that?"

"It's a circle that can actually turn around your waist!"

“It looks very interesting.”

The children around him surrounded him and looked at the little boy who was waving a hula hoop, his eyes full of eagerness to try.

Soon, the children flocked into the small shop and selected colorful hula hoops.

The store owner looked at the price of 69 cents next to the hula hoop, as if he suddenly remembered something. He picked up a price tag as fast as possible and wrote the price of 75 cents on it.

More than ten minutes later, the store owner looked at the children who were queuing up to pay the money and quickly wrote a 79-cent price tag.

The children got the hula hoop, walked out of the store and started to try it out. For a moment, the door of the small store was full of children with hula hoops, which attracted more children to come over.

The store owner wrote a 89-cent price tag directly.

In the evening, when the small shop closed, the store owner counted the money while looking at the shelves with the hula hoop. It was now empty, with only the 95 cents price tag left.

"Hey, if I had known this, I would have sold it for $1!" The store owner sighed with a heartbroken sigh. He felt that he had lost a lot.

...

In another block with dense office buildings, there is another poster hanging in the shop here.

On the poster, a man in a shirt and trousers was shaking a hula hoop, while the background of the poster was in the office. There was a line of big words at the bottom of the poster: Enjoy fitness anytime, anywhere!

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

"Yes, sir, and this kind of fitness equipment will not be restricted by the venue and can be used anytime and anywhere, even if you are in the office, there is no problem." The clerk hurriedly introduced.

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

"Of course." The clerk took the sample and gave it to the man in the suit to try it out.

The man in the suit who played with a hula hoop for the first time obviously does not have the flexibility of a child. Perhaps because he sat in the office too many times on weekdays, his body movements were a bit stiff and his movements were a bit clumsy, but he soon learned how to use a hula hoop.

However, when the man in the suit could skillfully sway the hula hoop, he was already sweating profusely.

The man in the suit wiped the sweat from 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 was standing in front of a poster, with a beautiful girl with a graceful figure shaking a hula hoop.

The girl on the poster is drawn with a bulge in front and back, especially her waist is very thin. With the aesthetic vision of an American man, this woman's bulge in front and back with a bulge in waist and thin figure is definitely the type of person who wants to commit crime after seeing it.

On and below the poster is a promotional slogan: "Let you have exquisite curves."

"Can this thing called a hula hoop be able to lose weight?" The young girl in front of the poster couldn't help but touch her belly.

Although the young girl had a well-proportioned figure, she still felt that there was too much fat on her waist.

"It's worth it to be worth a few dozen cents to get such a figure on the poster." The young girl walked into the store without hesitation.

...

At Bakerland Company, Chen Qiang directly pushed a suitcase in front of Bakerland.

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

Chen Qiang opened the suitcase, and all the green flowers inside were filled with US dollars.

"Mr. Beckland, I hope you can open two more production workshops." Chen Qiang said.

Little Beckland was slightly surprised and then asked, "Your hula hoop has good sales?"

Chen Qiang did not hide it, but nodded: "Yes, the sales volume is very good, and it will be out of stock soon!"

Little Beckland really wants to say "This is impossible". After all, in the past two months, Little Beckland has produced a total of 1.2 million hula hoops for Chen Qiang, and now it still maintains a production of 20,000 yuan every day. How could it be out of stock in just a few days!

However, the box filled with US dollars clearly told Bakerland that what Chen Qiang said was true. If it weren't for selling a lot of hula hoops and recovering a large amount of funds, how could Chen Qiang have so much money!

"It's just a plastic circle. Is that thing really that fun?" Little Beckland thought inexplicably.

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

"This thing is so interesting? Will it make people willing to pay dozens of cents to buy it?" Little Beckland thought about it, putting the hula hoop around his waist and trying to give it a try.

Then Little Beckland felt that playing the hula hoop really couldn't stop!

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Chapter completed!