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Marketing history

A Chicago advertising executive's crusade for greater production through beautiful posters.

During the boom years between World War I and the Great Depression, the American economy surged ahead on its war-tuned pistons, and the order of the day was production.
Like most people who make history, Clark Byers had something else on his mind.

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