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Office of Price Administration (OPA), U.S. federal agency in World War II, established to prevent wartime inflation. The OPA issued (Apr., 1942) a general maximum-price regulation that made prices charged in Mar., 1942, the ceiling prices for most commodities. Ceilings were also imposed on residential rents. These regulations were gradually modified and extended by OPA administrators—notably Leon Henderson Henderson, Leon, 1895–1986, American economist, administrator of the Office of Price Administration (1941–42), b. Millville, N.J. An official of the Russell Sage Foundation (1925–34), Henderson held several posts as economic adviser in the
..... Click the link for more information. (1941–42), Prentiss H. Brown (1943), and Chester B. Bowles Bowles, Chester Bliss , 1901–86, U.S. public official, b. Springfield, Mass.; grandson of Samuel Bowles (1851–1915). At first a journalist and an advertising man, Bowles was later (1942–43) head of the Connecticut Office of Price Administration
..... Click the link for more information. (1943–46)—until almost 90% of the retail food prices were frozen. Prices continued to rise, however, and new drives to secure compliance resulted; ultimately the OPA succeeded in keeping consumer prices relatively stable during the remaining war years. Besides controlling prices, the OPA was also empowered to ration scarce consumer goods in wartime. Tires, automobiles, sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, coffee, meats, and processed foods were ultimately rationed. At the end of the war rationing was abandoned, and price controls were gradually abolished. The agency was finally disbanded in 1947.

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What has always amazed me most is the Office of Price Administration, which managed to hold prices down in the face of incredible inflationary pressures generated by shortages not just of gasoline but of almost everything.

The case for new agencies by Peters, Charles / Washington Monthly

Zelda is a homemaker who, during their marriage, was employed by the Office of Price Administration - during and after World War II - as well as by Southern Counties Gas Co.

JUBILEES : GOLDEN MARRIAGE IS THE SPICE OF LIFE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

presidents, in jobs ranging from associate general counsel in the Office of Price Administration to, more recently, President Carter's special representative to the Panama Canal Treaty and Middle East peace negotiations.

The making of a public man by McMahan, Vance / Washington Monthly

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Office of Population Research
Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives
Office of Post Award Administration
Office of Post Award Financial Services
Office of Post Compulsory Education Training and Employment
Office of Post-Baccalaureate Studies
Office of Post-Compulsory Education and Training
Office of Postmarketing Drug Risk Assessment
Office of Postsecondary Education
Office of Postsecondary Education Identification
Office of Postsecondary Education Identifier
Office of Pre-Professional Advising
Office of Preaward Research Administration
Office of Precollegiate Programs for Talented and Gifted
Office of Premarket Approval
Office of Prepaid Health Care
Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations
Office of Preparedness, Security & Fire Safety
Office of Prevention and Early Intervention
Office of Prevention and Victims Services
Office of Prevention and Youth Services
Office of Prevention, Pesticides & Toxic Substances
Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxics

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Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
Office of Privacy, Information Protection and Data Security
Office of Private Health Partnerships
Office of Private Sector Relations
Office of Privatization and Regulatory Affairs
Office of Procurement and Assistance Management
Office of Procurement and Contracts
Office of Procurement and Grants Management
Office of Procurement and Policy Management
Office of Procurement and Real Property Management
Office of Procurement Executive
Office of Procurement Management
Office of Professional Accountability