The U.S. Office of Price Administration was created to control prices and rationing during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the OPA by executive order in August 1941. Sugar was one of many rationed products, and each consumer was allowed five pounds of sugar for home use. Additional sugar was available by application, but its use was restricted to home canning.
In 1944, Seattleite Bertha Gardner and housemate Alice Weaver filled out OPA Form 323 for 10 additional pounds of sugar apiece, using a form printed and distributed by U&I Sugar. U&I, whose initials stood for Utah & Idaho, had Mormon roots and was based in Salt Lake City. By the time of World War II, the company grew sugar beets and had sugar-refining plants in Washington’s Columbia Basin.
Caption information source: HistoryLink essay 8281.
ID Number: 2018.3.3.123
Date: 1944
Physical Description: 1 sheet ; 8 x 12.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
