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Re: Re: About gasoline, kerosene, and war rationin
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Posted by Dick2 on June 03, 2004 at 15:34:56 from (4.240.132.143):
In Reply to: Re: About gasoline, kerosene, and war rationing... posted by Allan on June 03, 2004 at 15:15:41:
I remember the rationing program during WWII. We had all of the gas and tractor fuel that we needed for farming in ND, but tires, farm machinery and sugar were rationed. Our city relatives would try to buy gas when they had used up their ration cards, but Dad said no. Dad got an allocation from the rationing board to buy a 1946 IH W4 tractor. Rationing had ended but new tractors were in short supply when his name came up on the list and he got a new 1948 JD G. A few weeks later his name came up on the list for a new MM U - we'd have been much better off waiting for the U.
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