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title: Telephone Line Time is Precious - Keep Your Talks Short
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-telephone-line-time-is-precious-keely-haycock-1942/
description: Two black telegraph-pole insulators with red lines cutting across them stand against grey cloud shapes beneath the headline.
section: Collection
---

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[![Telephone Line Time is Precious - Keep Your Talks Short, 1942 UK poster: Two black telegraph-pole insulators with red lines](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-telephone-line-time-is-precious-keely-haycock-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-telephone-line-time-is-precious-keely-haycock-1942.jpg)

# Telephone Line Time is Precious - Keep Your Talks Short

Two black telegraph-pole insulators with red lines cutting across them stand against grey cloud shapes beneath the headline. The slogan 'Keep Your Talks Short' asks callers to ration a shared resource; the only link to the war effort is implied by the poster's origin, with no stated reason.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Telephone line
time is precious

Keep Your Talks Short

Pat Keely '42

PRINTED FOR H.M.STATIONERY OFFICE BY HAYCOCK PRESS, LONDON. 51-3197
P.R.D. 285.
```

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