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World War II Rationing - Page
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Understand how to spend your 48 points
per month with this chart.
click to enlarge
This news article from October of 1943
explained the details of points allotted to each size of can.
More kitchen fat means more glycerine
to make bombs and bullets!
Ad from newspaper page above
We must get along with less sugar
this year because Military needs are high.
DO NOT APPLY FOR MORE SUGAR THAN YOU ACTUALLY
NEED!
View a 1943 canning
application form
Need a refrigerator?
View an application to
buy a refrigerator - reverse
side of application
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Your Car is a War Car Now |
By 1944, whisky had disappeared from liquor
store shelves as distilleries converted to the production of industrial
alcohol. New car production was banned beginning January 1, 1942 as former
auto plants switched to the production of military vehicles. Thirty
percent of all cigarettes produced were allocated for service men, making
cigarettes a scarce commodity on the home front by 1944. By the end
of the war, rationing limited consumption of almost every product with the
exception of eggs and dairy foods.
For many who served on the home front, rationing
may be the most remembered daily aspect of the war. |
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Rationing registration instructions
for Ames, Iowa
This motivational page entitled, Soldier
without uniform,
is from the 1943 Sear, Roebuck and Co. catalog.
You also serve -- you who stand behind the
plow, pledged to feed the Soldier, the Worker, the Ally, and, with God's
help, all the hungry victims of this war! You also serve -- you who
farm, you who pray and sacrifice. You'll feed the World even if it
means plowing by lantern light, and harvesting by hand -- even children's
hands -- even if it means putting up the trucks and going back to covered
wagons once again...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
Urges you to:
See your County USDA War Board
Meet your 1943 farm goals
Keep tractors working
Take good care of your machinery
Conserve your trucks
Turn in your scrap
Buy War Bonds
Farmers must win the Battle
of the Land with the machinery they already have.
(next page - War Bonds &
War Savings Stamps)
Information was provided by Ames Historical Society and is used
here for information purposes only.
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