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Office of Price Administration
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Office_of_Price_Administration
GPTKB entity
Statements (29)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:government_agency
gptkbp:abbreviation
gptkb:OPA
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved
May 29, 1947
gptkbp:establishedBy
gptkb:Executive_Order_8875
gptkbp:formed
August 28, 1941
gptkbp:headquarters_location
gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
gptkbp:historicalPeriod
gptkb:World_War_II
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Office of Price Administration
gptkbp:notable_administrator
gptkb:Leon_Henderson
gptkb:Paul_A._Porter
gptkb:Philip_B._Fleming
gptkb:Prentiss_M._Brown
gptkb:Chester_Bowles
gptkbp:notableAction
rationing of consumer goods
enforcing price ceilings
issuing ration books
regulating rent
gptkbp:organization
wartime agency
gptkbp:parentOrganization
gptkb:Executive_Office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:predecessor
gptkb:Office_for_Emergency_Management
gptkbp:purpose
control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II
gptkbp:relatedLegislation
gptkb:Emergency_Price_Control_Act_of_1942
gptkbp:relatedTo
gptkb:Office_of_Economic_Stabilization
gptkb:Office_of_War_Mobilization
gptkb:War_Production_Board
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:Office_of_Temporary_Controls
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:World_War_II_economic_mobilization
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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