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How did the us government control price increase for scarce goods

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They established the office of price administration, better known as OPA which was established within the office for emergency management of the United States government on August 28 in 1941.
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It set a price scale determining what different people could afford. It established the Office of Price Administration. ... It established the War Production Board to study pricing of scarce goods.
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