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Keep right on saving every drop of used kitchen fat! Keep a tin can by the stove, then take it to your butcher when it's full and collect two points and four cents for every pound.

12 seconds sound clip from the Christmas in July (1944) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:54:00 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- You know, Mr. Kennedy, there's one thing I don't understand about that.

- What's that?

- Why is it that they give us points for used fats when we don't have to pay any for new ones, like shortening and lard?

- The government doesn't want to use good cooking fats for industrial uses unless it's necessary to do so.

- I should hope not.

- So, they're asking women to turn in old burned used fats for our war planes.

- Keep right on saving every drop of used kitchen fat! Keep a tin can by the stove, then take it to your butcher when it's full and collect two points and four cents for every pound.

- It will be on it's way to a war plane in three weeks.

- Keep on saving used fats!

- Now, here's Mr. Barrymore with our stars.

- Now in any theater I've ever seen, this is the time for a curtain call, and nobody's ever earned one more than Dick Powell and Linda Darnell!

- Thank you Lionel, it was swell working with you.

[...]

Christmas in July (1944) Sound Clip

The African Queen (1952)Funny quotes with sound clips from Christmas in July - Lux Radio Theatre play originally broadcast on June 25, 1944.

Actors: Dick Powell (Jimmy), Linda Darnell (Betty), Raymond Walburn (Maxford), Lionel Barrymore (Narrator)

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