Just ask someone who was living during World War II when war rationing was in full ... purchases to help those fighting the war. The Ration Book was the most important book in the house second ...

Ration books were issued to each person over five ... got their fair share of what was available. The tokens were for food, and later for clothing. It was on 8 January 1940 that Food Rationing ...

So when World War II was approaching ... People were required to register with shops, and when purchasing food, they presented their ration book for verification of the amounts allocated to ...

After the end of World War II ... rationing for everyday goods. 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 ...

produced a copy in the mail from an unidentified source of the above document used during World War II (1941-1945 ... necessary that a similar rationing plan of food would take place in the ...

Most food was rationed ... 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 ...

Food was rationed. Americans were allotted ... meat, butter, etc.'” A World War II ration book belonging to Charles Stowell of the Belmont Gardens neighborhood of Chicago was found at an antique ...

Food rationing started in January 1940 ... Based on Sir Henry Tizard's real mission, choose carefully in this graphic novel. WW2: Did the war introduce designer fashion to our high streets?

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 ...

I realise how skilfully my mother and others like her conjured up tasty dishes from meagre rations. The story of food during the Blitz is a testament to these World War II stoics and to masterly ...