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title: War Savings will make your dreams come true
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-war-savings-will-make-your-dreams-come-true-1939/
description: A smiling woman in a factory cap works a lathe, with a painted scene of a man mowing a lawn and a woman and two children gardening behind her.
section: Collection
---

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[![War Savings will make your dreams come true, 1939 UK poster: A smiling woman in a factory cap works a lathe, with a painted](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-war-savings-will-make-your-dreams-come-true-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-war-savings-will-make-your-dreams-come-true-1939.jpg)

# War Savings will make your dreams come true

A smiling woman in a factory cap works a lathe, with a painted scene of a man mowing a lawn and a woman and two children gardening behind her. 'Your dreams' is left unspecified and the garden scene stands in for it, so the pitch rests on a pleasant word and picture rather than on any stated return.

## 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

```
WAR SAVINGS
will make your dreams come true

W.F.P. 319. Issued by The National Savings Committee, London; The Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh.
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Howitt & Son Ltd., Nottingham. 51-3982
```

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