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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 2466398, member: 74863&quot;]1943 is on the 2nd photo, centered in the middle on the bottom.</p><p><br /></p><p>CAPS are for yelling. These were used in the United States to ration certain goods so the soldiers could get what they needed first. Spares were used for anything that was deemed necessary. Coffee, Sugar, etc. are obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p>The following is copied:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>Rationing for the War Effort</b></font></p><p>Ask anyone who remembers life on the Home Front during WWII about their strongest memories and chances are they will tell you about rationing.&nbsp; You see, the war caused shortages of all sorts of things: rubber, metal, clothing, etc.&nbsp; But it was the shortages of various types of food that effected just about everyone on a daily basis.</p><p>Food was in short supply for a variety of reasons: much of the processed and canned foods was reserved for shipping overseas to our military and our Allies; transportation of fresh foods was limited due to gasoline and tire rationing and the priority of transporting soldiers and war supplies instead of food; imported foods, like coffee and sugar, was limited due to restrictions on importing.</p><p>Because of these shortages, the U.S. government’s Office of Price Administration established a system of rationing that would more fairly distribute foods that were in short supply.&nbsp; Every American was issued a series of ration books during the war.&nbsp; The ration books contained removable stamps good for certain rationed items, like sugar, meat, cooking oil, and canned goods.&nbsp; A person could not buy a rationed item without also giving the grocer the right ration stamp.&nbsp; Once a person’s ration stamps were used up for a month, she couldn’t buy any more of that type of food.&nbsp; This meant planning meals carefully, being creative with menus, and not wasting food.&nbsp; More than 8,000 ration boards across the country administered the program.</p><p><br /></p><p>Four different series of war ration books were issued. In 1942, five months after (December 8, 1941) the United States entered the Second World War, &quot;<a href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_one.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_one.html" rel="nofollow">Book One</a>&quot; series were issued. In January 1943, &quot;<a href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_two.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_two.html" rel="nofollow">Book Two</a>&quot; series were issued. &quot;<a href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_three.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_three.html" rel="nofollow">Book Three</a>&quot; series were issued in October of 1943. And &quot;<a href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_four.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/ww2/book_four.html" rel="nofollow">Book Four</a>&quot; series were issued towards the end of 1943. Most ration restrictions didn&#039;t end until August 1945, with sugar rationing lasting in some parts of the country until 1947.</p><p><br /></p><p>The A, B, and C series of green stamps in ration book 4, which will be issued during the last week of October, will be valie for the purchase of canned fruits and vegetables starting Nov. 1, Raymond S. McKeough, office of price administration regional head, announced yesterday. They will be good thru Dec. 20.</p><p>Stamps U, V, W, X, Y, and Z of book 2 are currently valid, but the first three expire on Oct. 20, the rest on Nov. 20, overlapping the new book 4 stamps. After the latter date, only green stamps in book 4 may be used for the purchase of canned or bottled fruits, vegetables, and juices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this answers your questions. They do not sell for very much, especially when some of the stamps are missing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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