What Was the Role of the Office of Price Administration

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Multiple Choice

What was the role of the Office of Price Administration?

• A) to combat the serious wartime deflation due to high unemployment rates
• B) to raise consumer prices so that allies would pay more for goods than everyday Americans
• C) to ration and set price ceilings on high-demand items such as tires, sugar, and gasoline
• D) to lower or remove taxes using the authority of the Revenue Act of 1942
• E) to promote massive increases in American consumerism to help finance the war effort

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