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 ...

In researching the tale of our energy use, I came across this website, an archival treasure trove of rationing during World War II. Most basic goods were rationed during the war, and the ...

During World War II food was rationed. ... A World War II ration book belonging to Charles Stowell of the Belmont Gardens neighborhood of Chicago was found at an antique shop on Feb. 2, 1982.

In order to avoid hoarding, as we have seen evidence of during this coronavirus pandemic, many items were rationed during World War II. On April 27, 1942, families registered for ration books at ...

World War II rations books found in South Lyon park. ... War ration books filled with stamps for food, sugar and other commodities meted out to the nation’s Greatest Generation during World War II.

During the six months that coffee was rationed, the allotment was a meager 1 pound for five weeks for everyone over 15. At the time, many Americans had lived through successive decades of turmoil.

The problems in the Middle East and American universities etc. produced a copy in the mail from an unidentified source of the above document used during World War II (1941-1945) that the older ...

Here at home during World War II, Americans were required to ration some items to ensure that troops on the front lines would have everything they needed to win the war. Ration books were issued to ...

As I watched the men get in each others’ faces, a memory came back, of a tattered little booklet I found in western Nebraska while doing research about American life during World War II, when ...

Ration books were used to help distribute the U.K.'s limited food supply during World War II and into the 1950s. The small books contained coupons customers could exchange for certain goods at ...

While the war may be almost 80 years in the past, nearly 40 per cent of the public would now welcome back the ration book to help fight climate change.. Researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden ...