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Identity
Canonical identity
Preferred name: United States Office of Price Administration
Abbreviation: OPA
Type: Organization
Sort name: United States Office of Price Administration
Disambiguation
Federal wartime agency responsible for price controls and rationing. Distinct from the Office of Production Management and War Production Board.
Authority summary
Institutional author of the Eleventh Quarterly Report for the period ended September 30, 1944. Relevant to wartime whiskey price ceilings, the August 1944 production holiday, black-market pressure, rationing, and enforcement.