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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.
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