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title: 'Share and play square: pay ration points in full when buying rationed foods; pay no more than ceiling prices'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/share-and-play-square-food-fights-for-freedom-1944/
description: Tall blue-and-white striped strip printed twice, the lower copy upside down, each with a red panel 'Share and play square'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Share and play square: pay ration points in full when buying rationed foods; pay no more than ceiling prices, 1944 US poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/share-and-play-square-food-fights-for-freedom-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/share-and-play-square-food-fights-for-freedom-1944.jpg)

# Share and play square: pay ration points in full when buying rationed foods; pay no more than ceiling prices

Tall blue-and-white striped strip printed twice, the lower copy upside down, each with a red panel 'Share and play square', a white circle reading 'Pay ration points in full when buying rationed foods' and a 'Food fights for freedom' emblem. The technique is faint: 'play square' is a fairness phrase attached to a plain compliance request.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
SHARE AND
PLAY SQUARE
PAY
RATION POINTS
IN FULL-- WHEN BUYING
RATIONED FOODS
PRODUCE AND CONSERVE
SHARE AND PLAY SQUARE
FOOD FIGHTS for freedom
Pay no more
than ceiling prices
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O]
[the same text repeats upside down on the other half of the strip]
```

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