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title: Don't feed black market greed
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dont-feed-black-market-greed-1946/
description: 'Price-control poster: a giant caricatured open mouth with a long pointed nose and chin swallows a stream of goods named in typewriter lettering (cars.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Don't feed black market greed, 1946 US poster: Price-control poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-feed-black-market-greed-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/dont-feed-black-market-greed-1946.jpg)

# Don't feed black market greed

Price-control poster: a giant caricatured open mouth with a long pointed nose and chin swallows a stream of goods named in typewriter lettering (cars, lumber, meat, nylons, irons), while red dollar signs pierced by arrows fly toward it. The text asks buyers to pay no more than ceiling prices. The tell is the personified mouth of 'greed' as the villain, a simple image for a complex market.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
don't feed
black market greed
PAY NO MORE THAN CEILING PRICES
[text in typewriter lettering on the red band, repeated and partly cut at the edge:] meat, nylons, butter, irons, electric toasters, washing machines, refrigerators, glass, cement, brick, lumber, new cars, used cars
[signature:] Robbins
[imprint:] ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946—O-695617
[imprint:] UNITED STATES OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION  WASHINGTON 25 D. C.  INF-P2727 (5-46)
```

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