A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 7, 1943, the federal government abruptly announced that wartime rationing of shoes made of leather would go ...

Because metal was needed for the war effort, canned soup took more points than dried soup in packages. Two ration books were distributed per person, including babies, each month, and the books ...

They weren't called “fashion tokens”. They were called ... Rationing, which had been introduced during the War, continued after it ended. Rationing of flour did not end until 1948; clothes ...