BOOMING THE WAR LOANS.
More than £100,000,000 worth of free idvcrlising was given to the United States Government, in its campaign to float the Liberty Loan, according to estimates made >y U.S. Treasury officials. This does not ucludo the hundreds of millions of dollars’ ,vorth of space given in small country lowspapors, which never reached the, atention of tho Government. Whole newstaper pages, moving pictures, millions of posters, signboards, hand-dodgers, paper tombs, und hundreds of other means of (ringing the bonds to the public were ioiiatod to the Government by patriotic •itirens. Thirty-six different languages ,verc represented in the hundreds of foreign language papers which came to the issistancc of tho Government.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 8
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112BOOMING THE WAR LOANS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 8
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