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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Four ration books were issued during the war to purchase products that were not transportation-related commodities or fuel. The stamps had no set value and were not for any specific product (with ...

There is a WW2 Team article here A1057240 on rationing, but it doesn't really explain what rationing meant. Ration books were distributed in 1939 but due to a misguided and virulent campaign in ...

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 ...

If there are two things I enjoy, it’s historical anniversaries divisible by five, and a good cup of coffee. So it caught my attention that next month marks the 80th ...