The Office of Price Control

Volunteer housewives would march in with the authority of the federal government behind them and inspect. They were called kitchen gastapo. Kitchen gastapo maybe a little over the top, but that's what the opponents of price controls called them. But largely the program was successful. Because who wants to be subject to profiteering? Armed with a grocery list of government sanction prices,. These voluntary housewives were essentially the foot soldiers of a new federal department called the office of ice administration. It's just the christmas wonderland, this pricing office of the o p a in washingtond established in 19 forty one by president roosevelt's administration.