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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link In fighting incendiary bombs, the jet is more effective than the...TITLE:In fighting incendiary bombs, the jet is more effective than the sprayCALL NUMBER:CD 1 - Berryman (C.K.), no. 210 (A size) <P&P>[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:_ _ _ _ _ SUMMARY:World War II cartoon shows Office of War Information (OWI) head Elmer Davis squirting water on an incendiary bomb labeled "Another Statement on Rubber." Leon Henderson, head of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes look on in astonishment. The newly-established OWI was given the job of coordinating public statements from the often contentious agencies of government. In July 1942, when Ickes criticized a statement of the OPA, saying they didn''t know their facts, Davis called in Leon Henderson and persuaded him not to issue a rejoinder. MEDIUM:1 drawing. CREATED/PUBLISHED:1942 Aug. 2. CREATOR: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist. NOTES: Published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.). (DLC/PP-1945:R2.203) mm / 860115; ljr / 020228. Sources: New York times, July 9, 1942; Evening star, July 31, 1942 -- ljr SUBJECTS: Davis, Elmer Holmes, 1890-1958. FORMAT: Editorial cartoons American. PART OF:Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll film copy) acd 2a05915 CONTROL #:acd1996000529/PP
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