Sugar purchase certificate

Creator

United States. Office of Price Administration

Date

• June 18, 1942

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office]

Summary

• Sugar purchase certificate issued by the Manitowoc, Wisconsin Local Rationing Board No. 36-1 to Martha Ann Weber on June 18, 1942, authorizing her to purchase thirty pounds of sugar. Sugar was the first commodity to be rationed during World War II and the last to be removed from rationing. Registration for sugar rationing started on Monday, May 4, 1942. This certificate was issued about six weeks after the start of that program. Sugar rationing was discontinued in 1947, almost two years after the war had ended. The reverse side of this 3 1/2" x 7" form has five spaces for buyer endorsements, which are blank.