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Food Rationing

Great Britain · Economy / Food Supply. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1918Date range
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Chronological records

1918

John Robert Clynes1918

London · Economy / Food Supply

Clynes administers compulsory rationing to distribute scarce food more evenly during wartime.

Names involved

John Robert Clynes

Provenance

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