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The Office of Price Administration (OPA) was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States Government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to stabilize prices (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt revived the Advisory Commission to World War I Council on National Defense on May 29, 1940 to include Price Stabilization and Consumer Protection Divisions. Both divisions merged to become the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply (OPACS) within the Office for Emergency Management by Executive Order 8734, April 11, 1941. Civil supply functions were transferred to the Office of Production Management.
   It became an independent agency under the Emergency Price Control Act, January 30, 1942. The OPA had the power to place ceilings on all prices except agricultural commodities, and to ration scarce supplies of other items, including tires, automobiles, shoes, nylon, sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, coffee, meats and processed foods. At the peak, almost 90% of retail food prices were frozen. It could also authorize subsidies for production of some of those commodities.
   Most functions of the OPA were transferred to the to newly established Office of Temporary Controls (OTC) by Executive Order 9809, December 12, 1946. The Financial Reporting Division was transferred to the Federal Trade Commission.
   The OPA was abolished effective May 29 1947 by the General Liquidation Order issued March 14, 1947, by the OPA Administrator. Some of its functions were taken up by successor agencies:

Sugar and sugar products distribution by the Sugar Rationing Administration in the Department of Agriculture pursuant to the Sugar Control Extension Act (61 Stat. 36), March 31, 1947
Price controls over rice by the Department of Agriculture by Executive Order 9841, on April 23, 1947, effective May 4, 1947
Food subsidies by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, effective May 4, 1947
Rent control by the Office of the Housing Expediter, effective May 4, 1947
Price violation litigation by the Department of Justice, effective June 1, 1947
All other OPA functions by the Division of Liquidation, Department of Commerce, effective June 1, 1947

During the Korean War, similar functions were performed by the Office of Price Stabilization (OPS).
Famous employees include economist John Kenneth Galbraith and legal scholar William Prosser.

Administrators of the office

Leon Henderson, 1941-1942

Prentiss Marsh Brown, 1943

Chester Bliss Bowles, 1943-1946Further Information

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