May 27
"No Gas! Reading is not Rationed. Let's Go Read! Kalamazoo Public Library"
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"No Gas! Reading is not Rationed. Let's Go Read! Kalamazoo Public Library"
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May 17, 1942 was the first Sunday of gas rationing. Here, a lone automobile stops at the toll gates of the Holland Tunnel.
Photo: Joe Caneva for the AP via News19
On May 15, 1942, gasoline rationing began in 17 Eastern states as an attempt to help the American war effort during WWII. By the end of the year, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had ensured that mandatory gasoline rationing was in effect in all 48 states. #OnThisDay
"Liberty is precious, so precious
that it must be carefully rationed."
Vladimir Iljitsch Lenin (attributed).
The Inquiry
(Hommage a Edward Hopper).
Sears spring & summer catalog for 1944. The cover model (no, that's not Doris Day) is wearing a WWII ration stamp corsage.
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"Have friends over often these war days. Serve them low-ration-point dishes like these, and moderate glasses of good wine. Such simple foods become "company fare" when made and served with wine" (1943)
Stamp out black markets... with your ration stamps. Pay no more than legal prices. Office of Price Administration poster - 1943.