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title: $73,000.00 paid for suggestions so far. Hand your idea in!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/73000-paid-for-suggestions-1944/
description: 'Suggestion-drive poster: a woman with a hand on her chin looks out of the frame while a hand drops a paper into a slot.'
section: Collection
---

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[![$73,000.00 paid for suggestions so far. Hand your idea in!, 1944 US poster: Suggestion-drive poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/73000-paid-for-suggestions-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/73000-paid-for-suggestions-1944.jpg)

# $73,000.00 paid for suggestions so far. Hand your idea in!

Suggestion-drive poster: a woman with a hand on her chin looks out of the frame while a hand drops a paper into a slot, beneath a red panel headed '$73,000.00 paid for suggestions so far'. The running total implies others have already been paid, a faint bandwagon appeal; no technique beyond that is strong here.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
$73,000.00
PAID FOR
SUGGESTIONS
SO FAR
Hand Your Idea In!
AN IDEA
ON PAPER
IS WORTH 2
IN THE
HEAD
[signature: Rochon-Hoover]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—580441]
```

[← 6th War Loan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/6th-war-loan-war-savings-bond-treasury-1944/) [$73,000.00 paid for suggestions so far. Hand your idea in! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/73000-paid-for-suggestions-hand-your-idea-in-1944/)

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