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Show Stamping Out Totalitarianism With Victory Bonds and Stamps After you lay down your money- for your war stamp or bond you feel the tingle of a patriotic fervor as you sense that your investment will help some soldier to wash the blot of totalitarianism from the face of the earth. But have you ever examined your stamp or bond carefully? This is the picture story of the careful planning and painstaking effort that went into them. Did you notice that Minute Man, for instance, on your war savings stamp? Topnotch artists first created him; special government-trained engravers cut the design freehand free-hand on steel plates. The paper was subjected to the most rigid tests for tensile strength and ability to withstand folding. fold-ing. Ink was tested for color and liability to fading. After printing, your stamp was counted and inspected by exactly 29 people before it left the bureau of engraving and printing. Here are some of the steps in the ! making of a bond j or stamp. Right: With the sketch as a model, the engraver cut the die by hand. He used no transfer or tracing trac-ing methods. Engravers En-gravers worked for two to six months on the steel plate. i "... '-i i 7 twn - i -A ull Iff -A' is! !?' V ' I Designer here is I working on the $5 I stamp. 1 ...iSfit r - I Above: A laboratory tech- nician examines the paper fibers through a microscope. Paper has a rag base, and that for the bond is as distinctive dis-tinctive as that used for currency. cur-rency. It has the ability to withstand folding and creasing. creas-ing. Every waste scrap is accounted for. Right: That smile is worth a million. This girl, who has just checked the bonds in the delivery room, holds four packages each containing $250,000 in war bonds. k?f ii'?- 'iv usri "1,1 Exp erien ced workers count the printed sheets (left) and examine them for imperfections. imperfec-tions. Defective bonds are set aside and destroyed. Sheets are counted 29 times from the time they were first placed on the press to the date of delivery. de-livery. Below : Flatbed Flat-bed press. Girl in foreground removes re-moves the bonds from the plate and stacks them. AH w . ' ' j ptV V - r- ' , '' J ' .1 . - v. r , .. .... . . -v . . . .v --vL ud L'... t.tort ,: A ' .......... Sir.. i'aLLl |