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...help win the war, the U.S. sent Russia some $10,800,000,000 worth oi Lend-Lease supplies. To help the Russians understand their American allies better the U.S. last year launched two Russian-language magazines, produced by OWI and sold throughout the U.S.S.R. Amerika was pocket-size, crammed with informative, uplifting articles. Appearing in alternate months, as a change of diet, was a handsome, 80-page, slick-paper, LiFE-size magazine called Amerika Illiustrirovannoye (America Illustrated...
...When OWI folded five months ago, the State Department was glad to continue the job. Recently the U.S. Embassy asked Russian permission to up the paid circulation of Amerika Illustrated from 10,000 to 50,000 copies. If circulation goes up, the price may go down : officially it is only 10 rubles (83?) a copy, but in the black market Russians have eagerly paid 1,000 rubles ($83) for a look at the Amerika most of them will never see except in pictures...
...never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...
Married. Stanley Walker, 47, able author-journalist, chronicler of the jazz age (Mrs. Astor's Horse) and of his own former job on the New York Herald Tribune (City Editor); and Ruth Howell, onetime Manhattan music critic, wartime OWI editor; in Dallas...
...Cummington Story, OWI Overseas' proudest production, about European refugees and New England villagers...