Grocery shoppers today have it so easy -- 24-hour stores, organic foods, ethnic specialties, ready-made dinners and supersized everything-- including soy chai lattes in varied sizes! During World War ...

The problems in the Middle East and American universities etc. produced a copy in the mail from an unidentified source of the above document used during World War II (1941-1945) that the older ...

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 Lyon’s ...

There were a lot of shortages of essential foodstuffs, not just luxuries. Ration books were issued to each person over five years old containing tokens which could be saved up or used at the owner’s ...

Rationing for World War II formally began when the national Office of Price Administration distributed the first ration book on May 4, 1942. For the next five years, Weld County residents learned to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Our current issue on energy includes a timeline of energy milestones from 1748 to the ...

November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the World War I, or the Great War as it was remembered prior to World War II. At 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 - after four years of ...

Sunshine Coast resident Keith Upward was born in 1939 just after the outbreak of WWII and grew up believing rationing was just part of everyday life. JUNE 1942: Civilians queue for the issue of ration ...

Eighty years ago, Britain fighting for its life against a brutal enemy in World War II. The Evening Chronicle's front page of March 23, 1942, provides a snapshot of truly global conflict: Royal Navy ...