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title: 'Vakuutusyhtiöt ovat jo merkinneet viidenneksen lainasta (The Insurance Companies Have Already Subscribed a Fifth of the Loan): Finnish loan board on a truck'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-kansanlaina-et-ehdi-mukaan-1939/
description: A plain hand-lettered board on a truck bed in Helsinki. It reports that insurance companies have already subscribed a fifth of the loan and warns…
section: Collection
---

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[![Vakuutusyhtiöt ovat jo merkinneet viidenneksen lainasta (The Insurance Companies Have Already Subscribed a Fifth of the Loan): Finnish loan board on a truck](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/finland-kansanlaina-et-ehdi-mukaan-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/finland-kansanlaina-et-ehdi-mukaan-1939.jpg)

# Vakuutusyhtiöt ovat jo merkinneet viidenneksen lainasta (The Insurance Companies Have Already Subscribed a Fifth of the Loan): Finnish loan board on a truck

A plain hand-lettered board on a truck bed in Helsinki. It reports that insurance companies have already subscribed a fifth of the loan and warns 'without hurrying you will not make it in', so other subscribers' prior commitment and a closing window are the whole argument; no terms of the loan are given.

## Text on the object

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

```
VAKUUTUSYHTIÖT
OVAT JO MERKINNEET
VIIDENNEKSEN LAINASTA.
KIIREHTIMÄTTÄ ET EHDI
MUKAAN!
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE INSURANCE COMPANIES HAVE ALREADY SUBSCRIBED A FIFTH OF THE LOAN. WITHOUT HURRYING YOU WILL NOT MAKE IT IN!
```

[← 'Dig for Victory' (British Ministry of Agriculture poster, child with spade)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dig-for-victory-child-poster-1939/) [Kansanlaina on maamme varmuusvahti! (The People's Loan Is Our Country's Safeguard!): Finnish loan board on a truck →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finland-kansanlaina-varmuusvahti-1939/)

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