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An anti-hoarding, pro-rationing poster from the United States in World War II. The work of issuing ration books and exchanging used stamps for certificates was handled by some 5,500 local ration boards of mostly volunteer workers selected by local officials. Many levels of rationing went into effect.
Tray containing a ration book and the weekly ration as issued to an adult in Britain during 1942. Martin Pearson Roseveare (24 April 1898, in Great Snoring – 30 March 1985, in Mzuzu, Malawi) was an English mathematician responsible for designing the ration books for the United Kingdom used during the Second World War.
Over 300 million rations, costing about 85 cents each, were procured under the 10-in-1 title from mid-1943 to the end of World War II. No other group ration was procured during that period. Hence, in actuality as well as nomenclature, "Ration, 10-in-1" was the final small-group ration of World War II. [1]
In 1939, before the war began in September, the government printed 50 million ration books. In January 1940, rationing of bacon, ham, butter, and sugar began. Rationing of other foodstuffs, such as "meat, cheese, margarine, eggs, milk, tea, breakfast cereals, rice and biscuits" soon followed.
The K-ration was mass-produced by several major U.S. food production companies, including the H. J. Heinz Company, Patten Food Products Company and The Cracker Jack Company. K-ration crates were either wood (43 pounds or 20 kilograms each) or fiberboard (41 pounds or 19 kilograms each) and had a volume of 1.4 cubic feet (40 liters).
He asked the mathematician Martin Roseveare to design the ration books. [8] In 1940 Woolton set up Advice Centres throughout the country, with cookery demonstrations and recipe leaflets [9] showing how to make the best use of rations. As imported wheat became scarce, the cartoon character 'Potato Pete' encouraged people to eat more potatoes.
Rotten Rationing Big Picture Show is a 2013 Horrible Histories exhibition based on the children's history book series, Horrible Histories, originally written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown, which explores the life and times of World War II.
Parachute emergency rations were a type of United States military ration produced during World War II. [nb 1] The ration was meant as a survival ration for use of aircrew who bailed out of their aircraft. It initially comprised energy bars, fruit bars, K-biscuits, hard candy and lemon-juice powder but eventually evolved into a food pack which ...