Word: posters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million pounds. At the war's beginning there were 23,650 Schools Savings Groups, carried over from World War I. By last week, in spite of evacuation difficulties, there were nearly 30,000, representing 93% of England's schools. To promote further saving, a children's poster contest was held, which brought in 1,200 designs by youngsters aged 5 to 18. Of 420 put on show in London, some were so good that professional artists slipped in, took notes...
...James Morris, 13, made a good caricature of the Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with the slogan "Dig For Victory." Ronald Sharp, 13, who filled his poster with planes, ships, soldiers, drew a Churchill-like man with finger pointed at the onlooker-reminiscent of a 1914 Kitchener poster...
Talk In Aargau, Switzerland, a prankster placed a Swiss Army poster warning "Keep Quiet-Idle Talk May Betray the Nation" under the speakers' rostrum of the canton's Legislature. A motion to remove it failed by one vote...
...publicity." Said Paul Cadmus in Manhattan: "I don't think it libels the Navy. Nobody expects or wants the Navy to be made up of Lord Fauntleroys and Galahads. I think the picture portrays an enjoyable side of Navy life. I think it would make a good recruiting poster. I will raise my prices...
...Under pressure of the emergency, the Army's authorized strength is being upped to 400,000. Resurrected was a dramatic World War I poster by James Montgomery Flagg. Twenty-three years later. Uncle Sam once more looked hard at the young men of his country, pointed a sharp, arresting finger, said "I Want...