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🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 108 minutes
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0:00.0 | This movie is full of movies out there. |
0:21.0 | Enterior Noir plays Doc too much. |
0:23.0 | Lowly plays. |
0:30.0 | June 1st, National Donut Day |
0:33.0 | While it may sound like a trifling fake observance such as National Corn Dog Day, World |
0:37.6 | emoji day or talk like a pirate day, this holiday named for a round pastry and fact originated |
0:42.2 | as a tribute to Salvation Army volunteer women who played a support role for US troops |
0:46.6 | during World War I. |
0:48.6 | Known as Donut Girls or Donut Lassies are most enduringly as Donut Dollies. |
0:52.9 | These female patriots prepared and distributed baked goods, coffee and other rations for the |
0:56.2 | American military presence in France, filling the GI tracks of GI's and boosting their |
1:00.8 | morale. |
1:02.6 | The Rabbid War Time Consumption of Donuts by US Military Personnel is even thought by |
1:05.9 | some to be why American soldiers came to be referred to as Doe Boys. |
1:13.6 | The conclusion of the Great War of 1918 set up a decade of Western economic boom, known |
1:17.8 | as the Rorying 20s, though the greed of the ruling class made the sustained growth unsustainable, |
1:22.3 | in the Wall Street crash of 1929 ushered in the prolonged misery of the Great Depression. |
1:26.8 | In 1936, just as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's new deal of tightened banking |
1:30.2 | regulations and vast expansion of government-make-work programs finally pulled America out of the pits |
1:34.2 | of financial despair, a Houston man named Lawrence perfected his gourmet Donut recipe, and began |
1:39.2 | selling his pastry's wholesale for just five cents a dozen. |
1:42.9 | Serving his product warm was essential, as the founder said, quote, when they bite into |
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