History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1669 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rationing and Bonds
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The idea
The Office of Price Administration, created in April nineteen forty-one, regulated prices and fought inflation once the war began.
In practice
Ration books for meat, coffee, butter, sugar, shoes, liquor, cigarettes and gasoline.
Where people slip
Millions of Americans bought more than one hundred eighty-five billion dollars in war bonds. Unit eight's Food Administration had asked for voluntary thrift; this war set prices by law.
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