At a time when every watt counted, citizens were expected to do their part and move their houses as close to the factories as possible, and build home generators to power the assembly lines.

On a different note: it’s easy to imagine the conversations that transpired when these booklets were designed.

“Say, Sol, we got two colors. What should we –“

“Red.”

“I didn’t even finish. I said we got-“

“Red. The other color is red. It’ll be red until we win, and then nothing will be red because that’ll be Commie.”

“So why isn’t red bad now?”

“It’s the color of war. You got the memo. No blue until armistice. And God help you if you use yellow.”

Oh, they might have made an exception for one fellow . . .click on.