A JOB ONLY A WOMAN CAN DO!

United States: Salvage Division, War Production Board, 1943. Very good. Toned.. A World War Two-era publication urging American housewives to save cooking grease and fats in order to help the war effort. The reasoning: "Because used cooking fats contain glycerine [which] is needed for gunpowder". Includes some fantastic sound bytes/catchy phrases: "Munitions from Kitchens"; "Save Used Kitchen Fats and Smash the Axis"; "Let's Save and Save Lives!". Note the images of housewives in aprons helping soldiers load guns and explosives inside, and the lower wrapper, which bears the message "SAVE WASTE FATS" inside the barrel of a massive gun. Single vol. (8" by 4.75"), pp. [16], illus., original self wrps. Housewives would save used cooking fats and oils and deliver them to the local butcher for conversion into gunpowder and explosives during the Second World War. (Inventory #: 24002204)