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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220473-18
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: USA
Location: Washington, DC
TC Begins: 11:27:16
TC Ends: 11:28:01
Duration: 00:00:45
WWII - 1945, USA Homefront, Government: OPA Chief Bowles Honors Ration Board Workers. Feb45 Intertitle: OPA Chief Bowles Honors Ration Board Workers. 11:27:23 Chester Bowles in office holding award before microphone & Mr. Richard Moncure. 11:27:28 Bowles, SOF: Mr. Moncur, as one of 200,000 local OPA War Price & Rationing Board volunteers I would like to present to you & your board in Arlington, Virginia representing all the 5500 local OPA War Price & Rationing Boards throughout the country a very special award. I’m sure that all Americans will join me in extending our thanks to you & other OPA volunteers for the grand job you are doing on behalf of all of us.” 11:27:58 Shake hands. 1940s; WW2; Government Ceremony; Government Bureaucracy; War Effort;