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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  Poster for the "Dig for Victory" campaign, encouraging Britons to supplement their rations by cultivating gardens and allotments

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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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  Polish milk ration stamp from 1981 to 1983.

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  Tel Aviv residents standing in line to buy food rations, 1954

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  A man at a service station reads about the U.S. gasoline rationing system in an afternoon newspaper; a sign in the background states that no gasoline is available. 1974

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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