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Slideshow: Tea Party in the Desert

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Decatur Deb3/29/2010 4:43:24 pm PDT

re: #212 Dark_Falcon

Though WWII had ended, demobilization took time. That and the need to supply food to Europe meant that food prices did not go down like people hoped they would. Moreover, given the way the nation had ramped up for war, 1946 inevitably saw the economy contract.

I remember butcher shops displaying the OPA blue Eagle.