To the relief of many, cigarettes and whiskey weren’t subject to rationing during World War II. But practically everything else was. Each man, woman and child in the United States required ...

Rationing has helped to stop people starving. And during the war we’ve learnt not to waste any food. As the war went on and food became harder to find, the Government had to introduce it.

On March 1, 1943, readers of The Appeal-Democrat learned that grocers in Yuba and Sutter counties reported light sales of newly rationed groceries during the first day of war time “point rationing” ...