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title: Non-stop work will win!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/non-stop-work-will-win-oldsmobile-1942/
description: 'Company-sponsored production poster: a smoking factory scene with a vertical steam jet and three black fighter planes in a red band.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Non-stop work will win!, 1942 US advertisement: Company-sponsored production poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/non-stop-work-will-win-oldsmobile-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/non-stop-work-will-win-oldsmobile-1942.jpg)

# Non-stop work will win!

Company-sponsored production poster: a smoking factory scene with a vertical steam jet and three black fighter planes in a red band, under the headline 'Non-Stop Work Will Win!'. It calls every worker to keep factories running seven days a week, using 'Let's go everybody!' as a bandwagon call.

## Propaganda techniques used in this advertisement

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
IT'S A BATTLE OF PRODUCTION
"Non-Stop"
WORK
WILL WIN!
LET'S KEEP THE FACTORIES GOING
FULL STEAM AHEAD 7 DAYS A WEEK!
LET'S GO
EVERYBODY!
KEEP 'EM
FIRING!
[imprint:] COPYRIGHT, 1942 -- OLDSMOBILE DIVISION, GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
2.
```

[← Next of kin has been notified... Your work will save lives](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/next-of-kin-has-been-notified-wpb-1942/) [Notice to employers, employees, and labor representatives of the motor transport industry →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/notice-motor-transport-industry-1942/)

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