Dan Wettlin

Emerging Into a New World Dan Wettlin

my husband try to steal some money to pay you, but he caught is in jail. Don't leave any more milk 'til he steals some without being caught. This is one of many notes left out for their milkmen by average housewives across the country and collected by the author. As a former leading marketing and public relations executive in the milk industry, Dan Wettlin, Jr has an eye for both the usual and the unusual, in personal and professional life. With gentle humor and keen observation, he tells intimate stories of life in America with iceboxes and scrub boards, before television, supermarkets and the pill. From beginnings in New Jersey and through the Great Depression and the New Deal, he was a young man who owned and published his own newspaper, The Haddonfield Index, and served during World War II in the Marine Corps - "the best 20 percent of the Navy." He was the first Marine granted permission to marry a Marine. Dan shares with his readers one man's experience as part of the development of both the supermarket and convenience store industries, and as a witness to the tremendous technological and sociological changes which occured in his lifetime. Told with insight and perspicacity, this is far more than one man's story; it is also a personal view of the greatest and most far reaching developments that occurred in this, the greatest nation on earth.