Office of Price Administration
United States government
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Harlem race riot of 1943
- In Harlem race riot of 1943: The aftermath
…of the riot, the federal Office of Price Administration (OPA) agreed to open an office on 135th Street in Harlem to investigate complaints about price gouging. The office was soon flooded with complaints. Mayor La Guardia was warned that when lease renewals came due, the landlords would violate voluntary price…
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postwar inflation
- In United States: Postwar domestic reorganization
In December the Office of Price Administration began to close down. As a result, the consumer price index did not stabilize until 1948, when prices were more than a third above the 1945 level, while wage and salary income had risen by only about 15 percent.
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