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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-hand-your-idea-in-1944/
description: 'Suggestion-box poster: a woman''s gloved-nail hand drops a paper into a slot, beside a woman with a thoughtful pose.'
section: Collection
---

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

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

Suggestion-box poster: a woman's gloved-nail hand drops a paper into a slot, beside a woman with a thoughtful pose, under the headline '$73,000.00 PAID FOR SUGGESTIONS SO FAR' and 'Hand Your Idea In!'. The technique is faint: the payout total is shown with no counts of ideas or costs, and the line 'An idea on paper is worth 2 in the head' is a plain slogan.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## 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:] Rochou-Hoover
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-580441
```

[← $73,000.00 paid for suggestions so far. Hand your idea in!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/73000-paid-for-suggestions-1944/) ['90% of the world's rubber is in Japanese hands: Save rubber' (Australian Army poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/90-percent-of-rubber-in-japanese-hands-australia-1944/)

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