Rationing of food in the United States. People go to stores with ration cards. Tins of food on shelves. Food packets and vegetables in a store. People buy food using the ration cards. Clothes on a string. People walk along a road with their rations. Shops and stores along the road. A dramatization: A house wife comes in a store to buy black market meat. The conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat when the consequences (high price and lack of food for military) are explained to her. The housewife goes away. Pictures of soldiers, Marines and pilots. (World War II period).
Rationing of food in the United States during World War 2. Propaganda song jingle heard on film soundtrack with words "It's up to you, mister, what do you say? It's up to you, sister, starting today." Other lines include "You can fix that shoe and you can wear it. And you can cut down food, and you can share it. Mister, sister, it's up to you." American citizens walking in American towns. A woman passes a storefront. Poster in window says "Your blood may save your next of kin" (encouraging blood donations). Another sign recruits woman SPARS for military service. Women exiting a church. A woman working tilling a victory garden. Men and women pedestrians and workers crossing city streets during a work day. A large crowd gathers in an open square.
Processing of eggs in Chicago, Illinois. Egg liquid is poured in a pumping vat. The egg breaking department. Women break eggs and put them into buckets. Women straining and examining the eggs. Drying cyclones and sifting process. Dried eggs in a barrel. A sign on the barrel- 'Spray Dried Whole Eggs'. Insignia - 'USA Press Products Corp.' on the barrel. Girls pour eggs for shipment to England. Views of pouring of eggs for the shipment. Dried eggs on conveyors. Dried eggs in boxes being packed in cartons. Dried egg in boxes with the British flag.
Manufacture and storing of butter at Swift's Brookfield Creamery in Marion, Indiana. Men remove butter from a churn. The churn revolves. Machines are used to cut butter into 1 pound ( lb ) blocks. Girls wrap the butter. The girls stack the butter in piles. A butter storage room- storing of an 800 lb block.
Food rationing in New York, United States, during World War 2. Interior of King Kullen Grocery store: A housewife buys rationed canned goods. A sign: 'Official Table of Point Values for Processed Foods'. A hand takes counts out ration stamps from a sheet of stamps. The housewife buys vegetables. A food market clerk places a bag of apples in a cart. The housewife talks to the clerk. Signs : 'Please Do Not Ask for Butter Today' and 'Sorry No More Pineapple'. A Federal Offense sign reads, "Let's share the food and help win the war! It is a federal offense to violate any provision of the Food Rationing Act." Additional signs read : 'All Rationed Foods Are Marked', and "We Are Temporarily Out Of Beef'. Exterior of King Kullen Grocery store shows people walking away with packages.
Military training of OSS cadets provided by the Office of Strategic Services in the United States, for agents who are assigned a military cover during World War 2. The OSS cadets get off a truck. Lieutenant Hamilton calls out the cadets' names. The cadets come and stand in one row. Lieutenant Hamilton gives them instructions. The cadets turn back and go away. They enter a building. They attend a lecture given by Lieutenant Hamilton.
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