If the ration points are cut, so must the prices be. Slashed points without slashed prices are one of the surest clues to black-market meats

Slaughtering for the "black market" in meat. Shopper accepting a ration point bargain(?) piece of meat

Meat rationing preview. Meat cuts with ceiling prices and point values per pound properly displayed

And, in the end, all points must flow back to the OPA (Office of Price Administration) to be accounted for. Every buyer of foods under this program must give points for them. And in every case the primary distributor--such as the slaughterer, cheese or butter manufacturer, fish canner, refiner of edible fats or oils and many processors--must give the Office of Price Administration an account of sales and turn over points received

If the ration points are cut, so must the prices be. Slashed points without slashed prices are one of the surest clues to black-market meats

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Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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safety film negatives

united states history

fish

library of congress

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Date

01/01/1943

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Contributors

Rosener, Ann, photographer

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Location

38.88868, -77.00472

Google Map of 38.888684, -77.00471900000002

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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