Word: postered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture was designed to remind Germans of Big Brother's big fist. Its title: The End. Subject: Hitler in his last moments in his crumbling Berlin bunker, a drooling, raving maniac surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins, travel-poster vistas of sunny harvest fields, hefty milkmaids, stern-jawed Stakhanovite workers, a tired, heat-racked oldster peering into the furnace glow whose portrait was entitled Esteemed Old Steel Puddler F. I. Sveshnikov. (Not to be confused with Esteemed Steel Puddler of the Hammer and Sickle Works, M. G. Gusarov...
Expected to win victory narrowly-51-55% of the expected 26 million votes -De Gasperi realized that the great danger was indifference; seeing no chance of a Communist victory this year, the complacent might simply stay home June 7 and 8. A pro-Demochristian poster addressed itself to this apathy: HE WHO VOTES NOT, VOTES COMMUNIST...
...Klein soon noticed that one Minneapolis customer was sending in big orders for poster paint in tiny bottles. "Being of an inquisitive nature." he went to Minneapolis and found that the paint was going into paint-it-yourself kits containing unpainted plaster figurines. Before long, Klein was making and selling so many similar sets to Woolworth and Kresge that he was the "world's biggest manufacturer of figurine kits...
...Park, Mich.'s Palmer Paint Co., which he bought with a down payment of $4,000 that he had saved (and $4,000 he borrowed from friends). With two full-time employees and a part-time office girl, the company grossed $2,500 a month selling poster paint to artist supply houses. "I saw right off the bat," says Klein, "that the field was too confined." He soon expanded it by selling his paints to mannequin makers and skating rinks (for painting designs under ice). "Well, today we are a big supplier of paint used by the mannequin industry...
Dogs & Dollars. Though he knew nothing about art, Klein soon had an idea that was even better. He hired a chart and poster man named Dan Robbins to turn out sentimental scenes of landscapes, flowers and dogs for an oil-painting kit containing a palette, paint, brushes, and a canvas printed with designs divided off into numbered sections. By just filling in the numbered areas with the correspondingly numbered paints, anyone could turn out a copy of the original picture...