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Save Waste Fats For Explosives
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At the top of the image, a hand pours fat from a skillet into a explosion of thirteen bombs flying towards the viewer. Text at top reads, "Save waste fats for explosives" and at the foot "Take them to your meat dealer."
1943
Koerner, Henry, 1915-1991
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W014GEG
WHi 91847
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