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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Even before the little plastic pills for the
coloring of margarine was the plastic pouch that had powdered coloring
in it.......One of my grandmothers used the margarine, sold all the cream to the
local creamery.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jacqueline</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 31, 2005 4:17
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Rationing and
shortages circa WW2</DIV>
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<DIV>Well I'll throw a few memories in; My Dad worked for Texaco in
Tacoma and then Portland. He had a C Stamp for gas and actually had more
because he drove all over the NW Supplying oil and gasoline to military and
also to Russian Ships. Also Remember the butter shortage? and we got
this awful stuff called margarine? and it was white in a plastic bag and
you had to break a little yellow pill and then massage the package to make it
look like butter. I told my mother I wouldn't eat that stuff and she said
"OK". I found out later that she just made margarine into nice bricks
like butter and fed it to me and Dad and we didn't know the difference.
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<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Bob Goodman <BR>USAF Retired
<BR>University Place, Washington</DIV>
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Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> Trisha; <BR>> <BR>> Last
question first, according to; <BR>>
http://www.quanonline.com/military/military_reference/american/war_ration.ht
<BR>> ml <BR>> <BR>> every member of the family recieved a "ration
book" <BR>> <BR>> http://www.prewarbuick.com/id389.htm has some more
discussion of why <BR>> rationing existed. <BR>> <BR>> I can't find
anything online in any detail about the issuing process, they <BR>> talk
about "proving to the rationing board" that you needed "whatever" and
<BR>> restrictions, such as you had to swear you only owned 5 tires to
get some <BR>> ration coupons and that sort of thing. As near as I
understand it, everybody <BR>> had to have ration coupons, if you didn't
a lot of "basics" were denied to <BR>> you, or severely limited. <BR>>
<BR>> Any of you that were there might be able to explain this easier
than a <BR>> "boomer" like me. <BR>> <BR>> Les C <BR>> <BR>>
<BR>> -----Original Message----- <BR>> From: Trisha Neal <BR>>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:02 PM <BR>> To:
or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us <BR>> Subject: [or-roots] Government
Ration Stamps 1940s <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Is there anyone on the list
who knows how Government Ration stamps were <BR>> issued around
1944-1945? Who were they issued to? How old did you have to <BR>> be in
order to be issued the stamps? How quickly could they be issued? <BR>>
Please contact me offline and I can give you more information. Thanks!
<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Trish <BR>> <BR>> Coos Bay, OR 97420
<BR>> <BR>> "For I know the plans that I have for you. Plans to
prosper you and not to <BR>> harm you. Plans to give you hope and a good
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