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title: 'Progress: your suggestion helps speed the progress of victory'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/progress-suggest-now-1945/
description: 'Blue, black and white poster: a twin-engine aircraft above a streamlined locomotive, with a covered wagon drawn by oxen below.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Progress: your suggestion helps speed the progress of victory, 1945 US poster: Blue, black and white poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/progress-suggest-now-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/progress-suggest-now-1945.jpg)

# Progress: your suggestion helps speed the progress of victory

Blue, black and white poster: a twin-engine aircraft above a streamlined locomotive, with a covered wagon drawn by oxen below, under the headline 'Progress'. A tag reads 'Your suggestion helps speed the progress of VICTORY. You can save time, money, effort and eliminate waste...' and ends 'Suggest now!'. Glittering generalities of progress attached to the suggestion box.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
PROGRESS
Your Suggestion
helps speed the progress
of VICTORY
You can save time money,
effort and eliminate waste...
SUGGEST
NOW!
[signature:] VICK CARLSON
[imprint:] WD Suggestion Poster No. 17, Mar 45, "Progress"
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945--O-625021
[imprint:] DISTRIBUTION: Ea fifty (50) civilian employees of the ASF(1).
```

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