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Something You Didn't Know About Monopoly
(You'll  never look at the game  the same way again!)
Starting  in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and  the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate  their escape...
Now  obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing
not  only where stuff was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and  shelter. Paper  maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when  you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get  wet, they turn into  mush.
Someone  in MI-5 (similar to America's OSS ) got the idea of printing  escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into  tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever.
At  that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and  that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the  government, the firm 
was only too happy to do its bit for the  war effort.

By  pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened,  'games and pastimes' was ... more

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