Rationing and Recycling on the Home Front
From sugar to nylons to gasoline, Americans rationed nearly everything to supply the war effort.
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Rationing and Recycling on the Home Front
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From sugar to nylons to gasoline, Americans rationed nearly everything to supply the war effort.
As the country mobilized for total war, Americans did without gasoline, rubber, sugar, coffee, nylons and more. Families saved kitchen fat to make explosives, and children collected scrap metal: Mobile gathered 22 million pounds in a single year, Luverne offered up its Civil War memorial cannonballs, and Waterbury collected more than 280,000 pounds of tin.
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Rationing and Recycling on the Home Front
Clip: Episode 2 | 7m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
As the country mobilized for total war, Americans did without gasoline, rubber, sugar, coffee, nylons and more. Families saved kitchen fat to make explosives, and children collected scrap metal: Mobile gathered 22 million pounds in a single year, Luverne offered up its Civil War memorial cannonballs, and Waterbury collected more than 280,000 pounds of tin.
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