Rationing facts for kids
Rationing is when a person gives away a low amount of an already lowering amount of resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand.
Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.
Images for kids
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Romanian ration card, 1989
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First World War German government propaganda poster describing rationing with personifications of meat, bread, sugar, butter, milk, and flour, 1916
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Child's ration book, used in Britain during the Second World War
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Lining up at the Rationing Board Office, New Orleans, 1943
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The diary of Tanya Savicheva, a girl of 11, her notes about starvation and deaths of her sister, then grandmother, then brother, then uncle, then another uncle, then mother. The last three notes say "Savichevs died", "Everyone died" and "Only Tanya is left." She died of intestinal tuberculosis shortly after the siege.
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Tel Aviv residents standing in line to buy food rations, 1954
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United States gasoline ration stamps printed, but not used, during the 1973 oil crisis
See also
In Spanish: Racionamiento para niños