Category:War bonds exhibit, Chicago Union Station

"Murals for War Bond Sales", Chicago Daily Tribune, September 15, 1942
Excerpt: In the Union Station in Chicago is a unique permanent exhibit, the purpose of which is to stimulate the sales of war bonds and war stamps among Chicagoans and visitors to Chicago. This consists of 12 great murals … and 4,500 actual scale model airplanes. The exhibit is sponsored by the Chicago Building Trades Council, which has a membership of 125,000 building mechanics in Chicago and Cook County. The airplanes, representing part of the powerful air fleet America is building to defeat its enemies, are suspended from the ceiling of the station, while the murals are hung on the walls of the concourse and waiting room. The exhibit will be maintained intact for the duration of the war.
Picture of the Week, Life, September 28, 1942
Excerpt: To smash the Axis, President Roosevelt last winter demanded 185,000 planes. LIFE's effort to show what such a huge air fleet would look like (LIFE, Jan. 16) inspired the model armada pictured on the opposite page. This stirring exhibit of 4,5000 model U.S. planes now hangs in Chicago's huge Union Station. The plywood planes, suspended 60 ft. above the floor by thin wires, range in size from 1-ft. wingspreads for fighters to 4-ft for bombers.
Photo caption: Symbolically pointing toward Axis capitals, 4,500 models of Army and Navy planes hang from the ceiling of Chicago's Union Station.

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