--- title: 'Victory Bread: Four Fifths Wheat Flour, One Fifth Substitutes' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victory-bread-four-fifths-wheat-flour-1918/ description: A wall chart headed 'Victory Bread' shows a loaf above the ratio 'four fifths wheat flour, one fifth substitutes' and a ruled table of pounds of wheat section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Victory Bread: Four Fifths Wheat Flour, One Fifth Substitutes [![Victory Bread: Four Fifths Wheat Flour, One Fifth Substitutes, 1918 US poster: A wall chart headed 'Victory Bread' shows](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victory-bread-four-fifths-wheat-flour-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/victory-bread-four-fifths-wheat-flour-1918.jpg) # Victory Bread: Four Fifths Wheat Flour, One Fifth Substitutes A wall chart headed 'Victory Bread' shows a loaf above the ratio 'four fifths wheat flour, one fifth substitutes' and a ruled table of pounds of wheat flour, substitutes and total. The table columns are printed with blank ruled lines for the baker to fill. The persuasion is light: the name 'Victory Bread' attaches the war's goal to a recipe ratio, and the rest of the sheet is practical measurement. ## 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 ``` Victory Bread Four Fifths One Fifth Wheat Flour Substitutes Wheat Flour Pounds Substitutes Pounds Total Pounds 4/5 1/5 1 1 3/5 2/5 2 2 2/5 3/5 3 3 1/5 4/5 4 4 1 5 8 2 10 12 3 15 16 4 20 20 5 25 24 6 30 28 7 35 32 8 40 36 9 45 40 10 50 44 11 55 48 12 60 52 13 65 56 14 70 60 15 75 64 16 80 68 17 85 72 18 90 76 19 95 80 20 100 160 40 200 240 60 300 320 80 400 400 100 500 480 120 600 560 140 700 640 160 800 720 180 900 800 200 1000 UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION SEPT. 1, 1918 HEYWOOD STRASSER & VOIGT LITHO CO. N.Y. ``` Row figures are shown as three tab-separated columns (wheat flour, substitutes, total), with fractions written as a/b. Each figure in the first two columns sits beside a blank ruled line on the original. The date line under the agency name and the lithographer's imprint at bottom right are very small; the day number in the date and the punctuation of the imprint are the least certain parts of the reading. [← 'Viennesi!' tricolour leaflet dropped over Vienna in D'Annunzio's flight, 9 August 1918](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viennesi-volo-su-vienna-leaflet-1918/) [United States Food Administration General Orders for Public Eating-Places, Notice No. 3 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/food-administration-general-orders-public-eating-places-1918/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (Roman Empire · 0313 · Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (Royal Museums Greenwich version), oil on panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-greenwich-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Medal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elizabeth-i-ark-medal-aftercast-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)