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United States Office of Price Administration

United States Office of Price Administration

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Preferred name: United States Office of Price Administration

Abbreviation: OPA

Type: Organization

Sort name: United States Office of Price Administration

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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.

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Organization authority record. Often abbreviated OPA.

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Federal wartime agency responsible for price controls and rationing; institutional author of the Eleventh Quarterly Report for the period ended September 30, 1944.

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Foster & Co. loses challenge to a reduced wartime whiskey price ceilingFoster & Co. loses challenge to a reduced wartime whiskey price ceiling
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Eleventh Quarterly Report — United States Office of Price Administration — Institutional AuthorEleventh Quarterly Report — United States Office of Price Administration — Institutional Author
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