Word: posters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Art for War's sake-represented since Pearl Harbor by Thomas Hart Benton's angry anti-Nazi allegories (TIME, April 6), by Government poster campaigns, by art classes in the Army-is not complete without the case of big, 50-year-old John Carroll...
...brave, young face of Pilot Officer Freeguard, 19, looked down on flaming Cologne the night 1,000 R.A.F. bombers plastered that German city with destruction. The same warrior face, on a British Ministry of Information poster, now is going to Russia above this message: "We lost 44 planes on that raid, but we are prepared to give our lives to destroy Fascism, as you are giving yours. The Fascists will not be able to stand the hell we shall give them together...
...Harper's Bazaar to start a swank whole sale dress shop. Her first spring style show was a flat flop. She tried again with a fall & winter collection. This flopped, too, and she turned to being a nurse's aide. She was the model for a recruiting poster prepared by the Office of Civilian Defense...
Company officials feel that the Kid is responsible for a reduced ratio of waste and for redoubled suggestions from employes. Two of the posters have been lithographed and distributed to 7,000 Douglas suppliers, also to some 450 other industries. Among the firms using Tokio Kid posters are Vultee Aircraft, Diamond Tool, Chrysler, Remington Rand, Westinghouse, Western Electric, Carnegie-Illinois Steel. No other wartime Industrial poster has caught on like the Kid. This week the Treasury began using him to sell war bonds...
...English, beer and Apfelstrudel, and asked for the local daily newspaper. I got the Deutscher Beobachter, with a curt 'Bitte.' Near by, three American karakul-pelt buyers were deep in wartime prices. They spoke English. Everyone else in the room spoke German. On the wall a German poster announced a UFA film, Wenn der Hahn kräht. All around were pictures of Germany...