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"Aluminum for Defense": Rationing at Home during World War II

 
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Type: Library or Collection
Grade Level: Secondary, Post-secondary
Author: Center for History and New Media/American Social History Project
Subject: Humanities
Institution Name: American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
Collection Name: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)

Abstract: The productive capacity of the United States during World War II surpassed all expectations. To boost that production and maintain supply levels for troops abroad, Americans at home were asked to conserve materials and to accept ration coupons or stamps that limited the purchase of certain products. Gasoline, rubber, sugar, butter, and some kinds of cloth were among the many items rationed. American responses to rationing varied from cheerful compliance to resigned grumbling to instances of black market subversion and profiteering. Government-sponsored posters, ads, radio shows, and pamphlet campaigns urged Americans to contribute to scrap drives and accept rationing without complaint. "Aluminum for Defense," a comic program from New York's radio station WOR in 1941, conveyed some of the tone of these campaigns. This excerpt, complete with clashing pots and pans, moved from Times Square to Harlem to the tony Stork Club.

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