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The WPB decided which decided which companies would convert from peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries. During one five month long paper drive in Chicago, schoolchildren collected 36 million pounds of old paper about 65 pounds per child.

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The OPA set up a system for rationing, or establishment fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military. Households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meat.

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The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods. The result of these measures, inflation remained below 30 percent about half that of World War I for the entire period of World War II.

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16 million men between the ages of 21 and 35 were registered. Congress also passed the nations first peacetime military draft. 1 million were to be drafted for one year but only allowed to serve in the Western hemisphere.

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When the war began 120,00 Japanese Americans lived in the United States. 110,000 Japanese Americans and shipped them to ten hastily constructed remote relocation centers euphemisms for prison camps. General Delos Emmons the military governor of Hawaii resister the order because 37 percent of the people in Hawaii were Japanese Americans.