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title: To speed our boys home... produce and conserve, share and play square with food!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/to-speed-our-boys-home-food-1943/
description: Colour poster with a smiling middle-aged woman in front of a service flag with a blue star, the quotation 'to speed our boys home...' and the instruction
section: Collection
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# To speed our boys home... produce and conserve, share and play square with food!

Colour poster with a smiling middle-aged woman in front of a service flag with a blue star, the quotation 'to speed our boys home...' and the instruction 'Produce and conserve, share and play square with food!'. The service flag ties household food habits to a family member in the forces, and the woman is presented as an ordinary mother.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

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

```
"-to speed
our boys home...
PRODUCE AND CONSERVE,
SHARE AND PLAY SQUARE
WITH FOOD!"
Don't waste a crumb or drop of it!
[emblem:] PRODUCE AND CONSERVE / SHARE AND PLAY SQUARE / FOOD FIGHTS for freedom
[imprint:] U. S. WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION
[signature:] CHAS. D. JARRELL
```

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