Ran across this World War II propaganda poster online. According to the New Hampshire State Library, where I found this image, this was created by Henry Koerner at the Office of War Information in 1943. The library notes that Koerner was a magazine illustrator both before and after the war.
An October 1944 summary (PDF) of the success of the Fat Salvage Campaign noted that it had,
. . . brought in about 180,000,000 pounds of fats in the last 12 months. That’s about one-tenth of the total production of all inedible animal fats which, in turn, comprise about one-fifth of our total supply of fats and oils.
. . .
Housewives get 4 cents and 2 red points for every pound of salvage fat that they turn into their butcher.
Salvaged fats go into the general pool of inedible tallow and greases. Of this total supply, about 20 to 25 percent is used in the manufacture of lubricants, fatty acids, and for other industrial purposes. The balance goes into soap, of which about one-fourt of our total production is used for war purposes–mainly to the armed forces and for synthetic rubber and other special war commodities. Glycerine, vital in explosives, is a byproduct of the manufacturer of both fatty acids and soaps.
