By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 16, 2014 During World War II when many commodities were in short supply, nations issued ration books to fairly distribute what goods were available among all their citizens. You couldn’t buy shoes or sugar or gasoline without turning in stamps or coupons from a ration book (or having your book stamped, or punched, or otherwise cancelled), and then you couldn’t buy more of that commodity until the next...
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