The Office of Price Administration (OPA), created in April, 1941 in anticipation of a coming war economy, soon froze many consumer prices and rationed common items such as gasoline, coffee, butter, shoes, sugar, and meat. ... Consumers could then choose food according to individual preferences (Ward 1994).
When Kennedy was president Americans believed that Cuba would send nuclear missiles over the wall, and they were so close to war everyone practiced Bomb drills and made bomb shelters.ヾ(^ω^*)
