British Ration Cards.British ration cards were only occasionally informative. Such entries on these cards as “Sergeants’ Mess,” followed by the name of the station, were occasionally found. In some instances a ration card gave evidence of the length of time its owner had spent in his unit ...
Every family was issued with a ration book that contained coupons, the size of postage stamps. The coupons were not money. Their worth was determined by the quantity and type of food they could be exchanged for, and that value constantly changed depending on the food supply – for example, ...
On March 1, 1943, War Ration Book Two became active. The blue stamps provided 48 points worth of processed foods each month. This supplied 33 pounds of canned goods per person per year, which was 13 pounds less than prewar usage. Rationing calendars were published in the newspapers to help...
War Ration Books Two, Three, and Four contained blue stamps forprocessed foodsand red stamps for meat, cheese, and fats. Each person received 64 red stamps each month, providing 28 ounces of meat and 4 ounces of cheese per week. The stamps were printed with a number for point value and ...
dark green livery and had branded tea cups and saucers bearing a lion’s head crest and the words, ‘Fortune of War’. At the Edgware Road branch, on a mirror forming the backdrop to the counter was the inscription, ‘Licensed to see Tobacco and Stamps – Founded for the Employment of...
dark green livery and had branded tea cups and saucers bearing a lion’s head crest and the words, ‘Fortune of War’. At the Edgware Road branch, on a mirror forming the backdrop to the counter was the inscription, ‘Licensed to see Tobacco and Stamps – Founded for the Employment of...
Both had been forced to leave Europe during World War II. They met in Rio in the late Forties. Tzvika immigrated to Israel with his mother when he was nine, after his parents divorced. Eventually Udi showed up. We shook hands and he welcomed me to the kibbutz. Udi didn’t much ...
Then a war starts and the database doesn’t hold an equation anymore that will let a LSF line get drawn, at which point new requests for grant money are generated. Ya want an analogy? I got one. Starvation. People die long before there are too few actual kilocalories to pump a heart...
'These war prisoners were quartered in three special camps named: Camp No. I O.N., Camp No. 2 O.N. and Camp No. .1 O.N. These camps were located 25-45 kilometres west of Smolensk. The testimony of witnesses and documentary evidence establish that after the outbreak of hostilities, ...
In an effort to help low-income families afford food, the federal government launched afood stamp programin 1939. It was in effect for four years, after which the country switched over to ration stamps. 1940: Government formalizes definition for enriched flour ...