Advertising, the vital $450,000,000-a-year industry which sparks most other industries and pumps lifeblood into the nation's press, had great trouble converting itself to war. In the first shock of conversion—as happened in many of the industries it represents—much advertising was terrible: hysterical, ridiculous, extreme. But U.S. advertising, whose virtues are seldom praised outside its own precincts, has so successfully weathered the crisis that by last week much of it had reached new high standards.
Lures, Snares & Baits. Before the war advertisements were written mainly to entice people into buying things. Powerful...
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