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Looking For A Christmas Tree

Fibber McGee and Molly · December 21, 1943 · 29 min · 3,925 words

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The Johnson Wax program with Fibber McGee and Molly. The makers of Johnson's Wax, Johnson's Car New, and Johnson's self-polishing glowcoat present, Fibber McGee and Molly, written by Don Quinn, with music by the Kingsman and Billy Mills Orchestra.

In this week before Christmas, there's probably more friendliness in the air than at any other time of the year. As we grow older, it's not the gifts of Christmas that we feel, but the friendly spirit back of them.

them the good smile, the warm hand clasp of neighbors and friends. When these friends and relatives gather with your own family in your own home, you realize what it means to have a home in a free country. In anticipation of these friendly gatherings, many of you will be adding the finishing touches of house cleaning this week. Among other things going over waxed floors,

furniture and woodwork to make them gleam with beauty. The makers of Johnson's wax are proud to fare humble product, find a useful place in your preparations for a warm heart at Christmas season. If you ever waited till the last minute to buy your Christmas tree, only to find that the dealers were all sold out, you have?

Well then maybe you can whip up a little throb of sympathy for Fiverr McGee and Molly. I'm afraid it's no use, McGee. We've been to seven different blocks and we haven't seen a loose bruce.

I'll get us a Christmas tree if I have to chop on off the courthouse long. Well then I'll have to change my Christmas present for you. That more bomb. I'll make it a bail bomb.

Say why in earth didn't you go by a tree last week as I suggested? Because they were asking ridiculous prices. That's why. Most of them slum raised lumber jerks were asking $750 for a bull legged little balsam, no bigger in a whisk room.

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