Rationing points

Rationing points

Rationing points

Asking civilians to conserve food didn?t do enough, though, and a year into the war, the government began rationing . In early 1943, the Office of Price Administration introduced a system for rationing canned goods -- which were needed for troops overseas and also used scarce metals. Each person had 48 points worth of ration stamps per month for canned, dried, and frozen foods.

Creative Commons BY-NC-SA