Rosie the Riveter: We Can Do It!

“Rosie the Riveter became popular during World War II when women joined the work force in support of troops serving overseas. The most well-known Rosie icon came from J. Howard Miller’s We Can Do It! propaganda poster. Created for Westinghouse, the Pittsburgh-based artist’s Rosie appeared on magazines, newspapers and posters encouraging women to join the work force. Six million women replaced the men who left for war in the factories, shipyards and industrial plants.  Michigan factory worker Geraldine Doyle modeled for the poster art in 1942.” Read about the modern day competition, and another’s thoughts on how this poster feeds into the ideas of work ethics.

FREE “Keep Calm and Carry On” Book Competition Winners

Further to this competition to win a free “quotes” book for Keep Calm and Carry On, I am pleased to announce that the winners are as follows!

Those who discovered that Edwin J Embleton was the Studio Manager are as follows:

• Andrew_Holt
• SeriouslyKooky
• Lorweld

A random selection from those who RT’d without the answer have been nominated for the remaining 7 copies:

• JoBy14
• Jas
• WriterCharly
• CheersPhilip
• Alex_Butler
• Peterbjordan
• MariaBarrett

Competition: FREE ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ Book

Win one of TEN copies of “Keep Calm and Carry On: Good Advice for Hard Times” (Publisher’s Information).  I love great quotes, and this book is full of some excellent ones!

SOME OF THE GREAT QUOTES HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS BOOK:

• “The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions” Ellen Glasgow
• “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes” Francis Bacon
• “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats” Voltaire
• “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them” Bernard M Baruch
• “It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella til it rains” Alice Caldwell Rice
• “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow” Swedish proverb
• “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you” Dale Carnegie
• “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory” Albert Schweitzer
• “Failures are finger posters on the road to achievement” C.S. Lewis
• “When written in Chinese the word ‘Crisis’ is composed to two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity” John F Kennedy
• “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship” Benjamin Franklin
• “Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil” Henry Fielding

Plenty more quotes in that little book, so to win one of 10 copies…

The QUESTION IS: Who was the Studio Manager at the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War? (Clue, check out
http://www.ww2poster.co.uk
)

THE CHANCE TO WIN? As I have somewhat of a love-affair with Twitter, I’ll be giving away 10 copies to a random set of ten Twitterers who Retweet the following entry:

RT @drbexl, Keep Calm and Carry On #kcco, http://www.ww2poster.co.uk. MOI Studio Manager: [answer] (Answer/RT for chance to win 1 of 10)

The 10 winners will be announced via my Twitter on the afternoon of  Monday 20th July (GMT).  Winners will be sent their prizes direct from the publishers (they’ve said they’re happy to ship worldwide), but will need to email me names/addresses, which I will request via Twitter (I will pass them onto the publishers and won’t use them for other purposes).

Competition: Win a FREE book!

Twitter-based competition to win 1 of 10 copies of “Keep Calm and Carry On: Good Advice for Hard Times” to be announced tomorrow!