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Post by Easton on Oct 31, 2021 7:51:17 GMT -5
^ I would imagine that the leather would have been more necessary for the military and the war initiative. I imagine those boys went through a lot of boots slogging around in those trenches.
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Jan 19, 2024 17:06:04 GMT -5
I thought this was interesting
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Post by Easton on Jan 19, 2024 18:33:19 GMT -5
^ I wasn't aware that rationing went on so long after the war. I've got the complete BBC 'Farm' series and, in the Wartime Farm, Ruth Goodman did a great job showing what she was allowed to buy through rationing and what she was able to make with what she was allowed to buy. They didn't get into the timeline of the rationing, though.
Ruth did, however, talk about how flour companies would provide decoratively-patterned flour sacks which the ladies could use to make clothing.
All three videos were interesting and informative.
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Post by Eileen Grace on Jan 26, 2024 15:54:14 GMT -5
So war rations were on essential products such as Milk, Bread, Eggs, Sugar things like that? What about like supplies for kids that were going back to school during the war time. Were those things also rationed like, pencils, paper, glue, crayons, and stuff like that?
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Post by Easton on Jan 27, 2024 12:32:16 GMT -5
Rationing was pretty-much limited to vital necessities such as sugar, tires, gasoline, meat, coffee, butter, canned goods and shoes. There were undoubtedly shortages of other items, but that was due to supply issues (similar to the empty shelves during the Covid crisis).
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Post by Eileen Grace on Jan 27, 2024 12:38:31 GMT -5
Rationing was pretty-much limited to vital necessities such as sugar, tires, gasoline, meat, coffee, butter, canned goods and shoes. There were undoubtedly shortages of other items, but that was due to supply issues (similar to the empty shelves during the Covid crisis). I was going to ask were the grocery shelves like when Covid was with like Toilet Paper and stuff like that. I guess that is why they had the rations during the war so they could limit things. I remember during Covid, although there were no booklets or anything like that, but there were signs on the selves saying only take two Toilet Papers and only take two Paper Towel Rolls and stuff like that. People still went crazy and went to multiple Supermarkets and got a ton of the stuff.
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Post by Easton on Jan 27, 2024 17:24:38 GMT -5
Wartime rationing was very different than Covid limits on purchases.
In wartime, like on The Waltons, they would have received a 'ration book', filled either with stamps which the grocer would tear out of the booklet, or with printed 'stamps' which would then be stamped with ink to mark that the product was purchased. When the stamps were gone or the pages were all inked, those products could no longer be purchased until the next booklet was issued. Ike or Corabeth would have been responsible for keeping track of all that.
This was handled in 'The Triumph' in which the Baldwins want to buy more supplies then they have ration coupons for and Ike gives it to them. A federal agent happens to be in the store and overhears Ike selling the supplies to the Baldwins who want to treat the troops stationed in the area, causing Ike to get into trouble with the ration board.
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Post by Eileen Grace on Jan 27, 2024 17:37:52 GMT -5
Wartime rationing was very different than Covid limits on purchases.
In wartime, like on The Waltons, they would have received a 'ration book', filled either with stamps which the grocer would tear out of the booklet, or with printed 'stamps' which would then be stamped with ink to mark that the product was purchased. When the stamps were gone or the pages were all inked, those products could no longer be purchased until the next booklet was issued. Ike or Corabeth would have been responsible for keeping track of all that.
This was handled in 'The Triumph' in which the Baldwins want to buy more supplies then they have ration coupons for and Ike gives it to them. A federal agent happens to be in the store and overhears Ike selling the supplies to the Baldwins who want to treat the troops stationed in the area, causing Ike to get into trouble with the ration board.
I think I remember that episode. Ike Godsey had a lot of responsibilities for just being a small store owner. Ike also had to deal with all of the responsibilities of the mail, he was a gas attendant and had to deal with the purchase of the gasoline. I think I remember that Gas had to be rationed as well. If I remember correctly, Ike was also a hair cutter. He had to deal with a lot. No wonder he had a heart attack in that one episode. With all of that and having to deal with all the nagging from Corabeth.
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