Special Delivery: Oil
Railroad trade-association sheet: a line of black oil tank cars crosses a stone arch bridge against a blue sky, under the headline 'Special Delivery'. The text gives one figure, 800,000 barrels a day, and says nothing of costs or limits. The technique is faint here; the closest fit is card-stacking, one favourable statistic presented alone.
Propaganda techniques used in this advertisement
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Association of American Railroads
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Advertisement
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- 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)
Association of American Railroads. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1788 (NAID 515466).
Text on the object
SPECIAL DELIVERY Oil - 800,000 barrels a day- rolling to the East-a thousand, two thousand miles-in solid blocks of cars and special trains. Special handling all the way - SPECIAL DELIVERY Association of AMERICAN RAILROADS [tank-car stencilled lettering: illegible]
