Hip, Hip, Horray! Its Fat-Collection Day!
In the early 1940's, America was in the midst of WWII and American's needed to conserve goods and salvage all usable materials.
Fat and grease were among the salvageable materials needed, in fact, three pounds of fat could make a pound of gunpowder.
The photo below shows a group of school children from Roanoke, Va spending a Saturday standing in line for "Fat-Collection Day" (October, 1942)
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