Content note: Caricatures of Axis leaders as greedy, sweating figures carving up a globe, with swastika and rising-sun armbands. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Putting on the screws
Corporate-sponsored cartoon sheet: a huge screw press, turned by giant hands from the smoke above, brings down a block labelled 'U.S. PRODUCTION' topped with factory chimneys onto three caricatured Axis figures who are carving up a globe marked Europe and Asia. The factories are made into the crushing tool (transfer), and the Axis leaders are drawn as greedy, sweating carvers (name-calling).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Philco Corporation (cartoon by Jerry Doyle)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Philco Corporation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-967 (NAID 514474).
Text on the object
U.S. PRODUCTION EUROPE ASIA [signature: DRAWN FOR "PHILCO" BY JERRY DOYLE] [imprint: Copyright 1942 - Philco Corporation] Putting on the Screws
