Found: War ration books filled with stamps for food, sugar and other commodities meted out to the nation’s Greatest Generation during World War II. Someone found the bits of history at South ...

During World War II, times were different, as fewer manufactured goods were available because of military needs. The U.S. government set up a system of rationing and price controls to provide ...

There were a lot of shortages of essential foodstuffs, not just luxuries. Ration books were issued to each person over five years old containing tokens which could be saved up or used at the owner ...

Bob Greene’s “Coronavirus and the Ration Book” (op-ed, March 28) about the ration books issued during World War II brought back many memories to me. My father, Joseph Scuderi, had an Italian ...

The rationing effort remained mostly in effect until fall 1945. The result, Sundin said, was that Americans' diets were healthier than they had been before. They ate more poultry and less red meat.

Every American was issued a series of ration books during World War II. The ration books contained removable stamps good for certain rationed items, like sugar, meat, cooking oil, and canned goods.

Toward the end of WWII, late 1944 or early 1945, I was in downtown Decatur shopping with my mother, Margaret, when I noticed my mother was getting very excited. She ...

One day we were told that we could go for some sweets, but we didn't need to take the ration book — this was the end of sweet rationing. We were puzzled! You always needed a ration book for sweets.

Women bring their ration books to London’s Petticoat Lane Market during World War II on the first day of bread rationing. Rationing today is seen as a sign that things have gone very wrong.