An Ottawa woman found ration cards from WW2 inside second-hand books. Now, she’s connected with the original owners’ families ...

The problems in the Middle East and American universities etc. produced a copy in the mail from an unidentified source of the above document used during World War II (1941-1945) that the older ...

Found: War ration books filled with stamps for food, sugar and other commodities meted out to the nation’s Greatest Generation during World War II. Someone found the bits of history at South Lyon’s ...

Grocery shoppers today have it so easy -- 24-hour stores, organic foods, ethnic specialties, ready-made dinners and supersized everything-- including soy chai lattes in varied sizes! During World War ...

It’s the kind of discovery you’d never expect from a used book, a piece of the past now connecting two families, two provinces, and one remarkable chapter of Canadian history.

My Gran mentioned that she would walk a mile back from school to discover her mother with five ration books sending her down to the shop to get oranges. After telling us it was always her and not her ...

Toward the end of WWII, late 1944 or early 1945, I was in downtown Decatur shopping with my mother, Margaret, when I noticed my mother was getting very excited. She had spotted a line of about 20 ...

World War II rationing points "OPA' stands for Office of Price Administration, a federal office created by an act of Congress. The points were distributed as change when turning in a coupon for ...

Following Japan’s bombing of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the United States’ resulting entry into the second World War, American at home knew there would ...