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 ...

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 ...

Everything Americans ate during World War II became slightly adulterated, highly substituted, or heavily rebranded. The goal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 mini-museum contained other items from the store's history, including a typical ration book issued during World War II. As The Telegraph notes, the Queen recalled owning a similar book herself.

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.

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 ...

They were one of the most visible elements of a sprawling effort by the federal government aimed at rationing consumer goods during World War II.

During World War II, the United States was facing a crisis. War production, supply chain disruption and worker scarcity meant that many products were not readily available. In January 1942, Congress ...

My picture from my National Registration Identity Card that we all had to carry during WW2 and for some years after I worked in the Ministry of Food which looked after the nation's rationing ...