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Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: Professor of Economics, Oberlin College; chief economist, Consumers Counsel Division, U.S. Department of Interior

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, National Office for ...

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Mrs. Beryl Smith Gridley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mrs. Beryl Smith Gridley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Off...

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Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): d...

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Left: Loda Mae Davis, assistant to the Chief, Consumer Contacts Section, Consumer Division, Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: instructor in Consumer Problems, San Mateo Junior College; author, lecturer.

Left: Loda Mae Davis, assistant to the Chief, Consumer Contacts Sectio...

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Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relation Section of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relat...

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Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. R...

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Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--the kind of food that is being sent overseas to save shipping space. From left to right: Leon Henderson, Price Administrator; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB); Brigadier General Carl Hardigg, Office of the Quartermaster General; and William Batt, WPB Vice Chairman. The luncheon was arranged on November 6, 1942 in the Social Security Building by Lee Marshall, Food Consultant to Mr. Nelson, to acquaint war agency officials with the progress that has been made in this country in the field of dehydrated foods. Such dried foods result in savings of up to eighty percent in volume and up to ninety percent in weight

Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--...

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Price control. Anti-inflation window display. Using two-color tickets to show the consumer what might have happened if the government had not established the system of price control and required all stores to display the ceiling prices, this window is not only educational but also well merchandised. The upper part of the price tickets tell what the "inflation price might be" and the lower section what actual prices are under the Office of Price Administration ceilings

Price control. Anti-inflation window display. Using two-color tickets ...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Meat rationing preview. Office of Price Administration (OPA) meat rationing executives who acted as butchers at demonstration for the press sharpen up the tools of the trade in anticipation. William Nielander, Leon Bosch, and Howard Westing with meat-cutting tools

Meat rationing preview. Office of Price Administration (OPA) meat rati...

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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Left: Loda Mae Davis, assistant to the chief, Consumer Contacts Section, Consumer Division, Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: instructor in Consumer Problems, San Mateo Junior College; author, lecturer. Right: Jean Holmes, clerical assistant, Consumer Division, OPA. Former association: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Left: Loda Mae Davis, assistant to the chief, Consumer Contacts Sectio...

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Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, Office for Price Administration (OPA). Former association: Professor of Economics, Oberlin College; chief economist, Consumer Counsel Division, U.S. Department of Interior

Ben W. Lewis, chief economist, Consumer Division, Office for Price Adm...

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Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with Leon Henderson, Office of Price Administration Administrator (OPA), and Donald Gordon, Chairman of the Canadian Wartime Prices and Trade Board, at the announcement of the price control order. Dr. Brown is working with OPA on the price regulation as it affects the Negro race in America

Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with...

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Sugar rationing. What every householder will know! Mrs. Leon Henderson, wife of the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) head, goes through the routine of registering for her sugar rationing book, assisted by Dr. Elmer S. Newton, superintendent of Western High School, Washington D.C. Nationwide registration will be held from May 4th through May 7th. That's Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the vice-president, at left

Sugar rationing. What every householder will know! Mrs. Leon Henderson...

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United States Office of Price Administration Control program

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

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OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings for offenders of the pleasure driving regulations. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The man being sworn in has been stopped by policemen, accompanied by an OPA investigator. There was some question as to his reasons for driving, and he was asked to appear at hearing between eight p.m. and one a.m. within the next three days. Penalties range from depriving drivers of gas ration books to warnings

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings fo...

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Sunie Steele, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Sunie Steele, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price...

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Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Price Administration)

Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Pric...

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Mr. Oregon B. Helfrich, Chemical, Bolvent Unit, Price Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Oregon B. Helfrich, Chemical, Bolvent Unit, Price Division, Office...

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Miss Gladys Baker. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Gladys Baker. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of ...

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Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Price Administration)

Dan A. West, deputy director of Consumer Division, OPA (Office of Pric...

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Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relation Section of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Caroline F. Ware, head of Program Materials Unit of the Consumer Relat...

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Sugar rationing. Even the wife of the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) administrator has to sign up for her sugar quota. Mrs. Leon Henderson enacts the role millions of Americans will go through from May 4th through May 7th, when nationwide sugar rationing goes into effect. She's assisted here by Dr. Elmer S. Newton, Washington, D.C., superintendent of Western High School

Sugar rationing. Even the wife of the Office of Price Administration's...

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Left to right: Dr. John S. Sly, Regional Price Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA); Sylvan Joseph, Regional Price Director OPA; A. Antolini, Associate Regional Price Administrator

Left to right: Dr. John S. Sly, Regional Price Administrator, Office o...

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Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (standing) first meeting of OPA training program for price control, December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Admini...

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Meeting between officials of the OPM, Army, Navy and representatives of the automobile industry and the automobile unions, to discuss the problems of conversion in automobile plants. Left to right: R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO (United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations) president; Sidney Hillman, associate general, OPM (Office of Personnel Management); Leon Henderson, director, OPA (Office of Price Administration); Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker Company; Edsel Ford; William S. Knudsen, direcotr general, OPM; C.E. Wilson, president, General Motors

Meeting between officials of the OPM, Army, Navy and representatives o...

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Meat rationing preview. Paul M. O'Leary, Office of Price Administration (OPA) deputy administrator for rationing, looks perplexed at the problems of cutting a wholesale carcass. Mrs. Philip Crowlie looks on in amusement

Meat rationing preview. Paul M. O'Leary, Office of Price Administratio...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbor, New York, a newswriter in the petroleum research section of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), who is chairman of publicity of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Dorothea Erenreich, of Belle Harbo...

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Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These checks cost at the rate of one-half the selling price of the newspaper and are exchanged at another window for the number of papers they call for. Witness, E. N. Clopper. Location: Indianapolis, Indiana.

Indianapolis Newsboys buying brass checks in a newspaper office. These...

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Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Section, Office of Price Administration

Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Se...

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Mabelle B. Blake. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mabelle B. Blake. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of P...

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Mrs. Edith W. Rennecker. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mrs. Edith W. Rennecker. Field representative, Consumer Division, Offi...

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The victory on the household front. The above poster, designed by the Consumer Division of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) , is being used as part of the national campaign to conserve materials which are no longer available or have become scarce as a result of war conditions

The victory on the household front. The above poster, designed by the ...

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Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Admini...

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E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Administration

E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Ad...

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Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase price in war bonds to the seller, Frederick G. Zander, as Ben Taft, second from left, auto salvage inspector of the automobile graveyard section and another War Production Board (WPB) official look on. Group of Office of Price Administration (OPA) officials with buyer and seller of 15 buses for scrap metal in a Long Island, New York parking lot

Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase pric...

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Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (standing) first meeting of OPA training program for price control, December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Admini...

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Left to right: Dr. John S. Sly, Regional Price Administrator, Office of Price Administration; A. Antolini, Associate Regional Price Administrator; Sylvan Joseph, Regional Price Director OPA

Left to right: Dr. John S. Sly, Regional Price Administrator, Office o...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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United States Office of Price Administration Control program

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer who checks and posts ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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West Danville, Vermont. OPA (Office of Price Administration) inspector Maurice J. Sullivan stopping in for a friendly visit with the Hastings. He mentions that chickens and strawberries don't have to have their calling prices posted because they are not designated as cost of living commodities in Bulletin no. 1, entitled "The General Maximum Price Regulation," which he holds in his hand

West Danville, Vermont. OPA (Office of Price Administration) inspector...

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United States Office of Price Administration Control program

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings for offenders of the pleasure driving regulations. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The man being sworn in has been stopped by policeman, accompanied by an OPA investigator. There was some question as to his reasons for driving, and he was asked to appear at hearing between eight p.m. and one a.m. within the next three days. Penalties range from depriving drivers of gas ration books to warnings

OPA (Office of Price Administration) lawyers holding night hearings fo...

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administrationn (OPA), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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Mr. Thomas E. Milliman, Food and Chemical Section Price Division, Office of Production Administration (OPA)

Mr. Thomas E. Milliman, Food and Chemical Section Price Division, Offi...

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Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price Administration (OPM), Office of Emergency Management (OEM), in charge of the Consumer Division

Miss Harriet Elliott, associate administrator of the Office of Price A...

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C. D. Scully, Jr., Business Specialist, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Administration

C. D. Scully, Jr., Business Specialist, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Off...

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Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe box, Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, polishes the shoes of Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson

Shining up an administrator. With ceiling prices listed on his shoe bo...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph services for the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Manpower Commission (WMC), and the Office of Price Administration (OPA), as well as for the WPB, go through the Business Management Branch of the WPB's Administrative Division. This unit, which contains twenty-two teletype machines and eight receiving sets, sends out an average of 3,000 messages daily

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph ser...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign displayed in "Shapiro's Bargain Stand," one of New York's East Side marketplaces, shows that the Shapiros, like hundreds of others in the market, are cooperating with the Office of Price Administration in posting prices where their customers can see them

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign di...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Meat rationing preview. Reporters make their own news. Washington correspondents get preview of meat rationing in operation with Office of Price Administration officials behind counter. In left foreground is Mrs. Philip Crowlie, OPA's "typical housewife," explaining the system to a woman reporter, while Harold Rowe, food rationing chief, figures point values on the scale

Meat rationing preview. Reporters make their own news. Washington corr...

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Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consumer Interest Council, a group of Negro housewives at Newport News, making a report to the members of the Special Services Section of the Office of Price Administration, concerning point rationing. Left to right: Mrs. M. Barr, Miss A. Wilson, Miss Freedman, Mrs. Ethel Stephens, Miss Warrick, and Miss F. Williams

Newport News, Virginia. Mrs. Ethel R. Stephens, organizer of the Consu...

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Edgar S. Kaufmann, Consultant on Distribution Problems for the Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Edgar S. Kaufmann, Consultant on Distribution Problems for the Office ...

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May Thompson Evans, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

May Thompson Evans, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of...

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E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Administration

E. A. France, Jr, Chief, Scrap Iron and Steel Unit, Office of Price Ad...

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Mrs. Bertha Adams Mulvey. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mrs. Bertha Adams Mulvey. Field representative, Consumer Division, Off...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

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The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

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The official table of consumer point values, supplied to retailers by the OPA (Office of Price Administration), gives the answers. It can be obtained from the local post office. The law requires all retailers to post this table where everyone can see it easily

The official table of consumer point values, supplied to retailers by ...

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Meat rationing preview. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for meat with red stamps. The "butcher" is William Nielander, Office of Price Administration (OPA) rationing executive

Meat rationing preview. Food editor of a woman's magazine shops for me...

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[Portrait of James P. (James Price) Johnson and Freddie Moore, William P. Gottlieb's office party, Jamaica, Queens, New York, N.Y., ca. 1948]

[Portrait of James P. (James Price) Johnson and Freddie Moore, William...

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Mr. Justin Stewart. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Justin Stewart. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of...

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J. Charles Laue, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

J. Charles Laue, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pr...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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United States Office of Price Administration Control program

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

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United States Office of Price Administration Control program

United States Office of Price Administration Control program

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Press conference on meat rationing. J.H. Westing (left), assistant director of Office of Price Administration's (OPA) Food Rationing Division, and Leon Bosch, head of Point Control Development show reporters, at press conference held March 20, papier-mache meat cuts to illustrate point values

Press conference on meat rationing. J.H. Westing (left), assistant dir...

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Preparation for point rationing. With an official as their guide, woman shopper and daughter get their first experience in using war ration book two in purchasing processed foods. Harold B. Rowe, director of Office of Price Administration's (OPA) Food Rationing Division, indicates the point values of various canned goods

Preparation for point rationing. With an official as their guide, woma...

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Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Section, Office of Price Administration

Roswell H. Whitman, Price Executive, Steel, Iron and Steel Products Se...

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Laura R. Daly, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Laura R. Daly, Field Representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pric...

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Philip Weltner, Assistant Director, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Philip Weltner, Assistant Director, Office of Price Administration (OP...

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Rolf Nugent, associate price executive, Auto and Truck Section, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Rolf Nugent, associate price executive, Auto and Truck Section, Office...

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Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) with Leon Henderson, Administrator, in Washington, D.C. just prior to Mr. Henderson's retirement from office. Seated, left to right, J.K. Galbraith, Mr. Henderson, John E. Hamm, David Ginsburg. Standing, left to right, Dexter M. Keezer, Paul M. O'Leary, Paul A. Porter, Edward N. Hay, Robert W. Horton

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price...

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Posed photograph at a department store in Philadelphia, with volunteer woman investigator checking for Office of Price Administration's (OPA) enforcement agency prices of lingerie and hosiery

Posed photograph at a department store in Philadelphia, with volunteer...

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Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program for price control (first meeting), December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Office of Price Administration (OPA) training program...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnesota, who does secretarial work at the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is secretary of the Walsh Club for war workers, located at 1523 22nd Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. A portrait of Miss Agnes Gervais, of Marshall, Minnes...

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Post office, Montville, N.J. / photo by Price.

Post office, Montville, N.J. / photo by Price.

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Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King co-op seed exchange at Williams, Minnesota. This test is to ascertain purity and quality of seed before the price is set on it

Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King co-op s...

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Mr. Thomas Fansler. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. Thomas Fansler. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of...

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John F. Corwin, Acting Chief, Plastics Unit, Chemical Section, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

John F. Corwin, Acting Chief, Plastics Unit, Chemical Section, Office ...

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Dr. John Kenneth Gailbraith, assistant administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply, Office of Emergency Management. Dr. Galbraith is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University

Dr. John Kenneth Gailbraith, assistant administrator, Office of Price ...

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Dr. Donald H. Wallace. Head Economic Analyst, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Civilian Supply

Dr. Donald H. Wallace. Head Economic Analyst, Office of Price Administ...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (OPA) enforcement agency in Philadelphia, one of three cities selected in a test drive to discover violations of rationing and ceiling prices, in a department store checking prices of women's apparel. All investigators were required to fill out reports, regardless whether violations were uncovered or not. A number of complaints against law violations in three test cities resulted from the surprise investigation

Volunteer woman investigator for the Office of Price Administration (O...

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New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

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Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King cooperative seed exchange at Williams, Minnesota. This test is to determine purity and quality of the seed before a price can be set on it

Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King coopera...

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Miss Mary Hawes. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Miss Mary Hawes. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Pr...

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Mr. William H. Conley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Mr. William H. Conley. Field representative, Consumer Division, Office...

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Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in Charge of the Consumer Div...

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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

And, in the end, all points must flow back to the OPA (Office of Price...

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