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Agree, except this is a rationing page, not a rations page, so, N really on point...unless you got disambiguated here, in which case, somebody needs a dictionary. 
On rationing trivia, I've heard Canada's rationing lasted into the '50s, too (I've heard 1953 cited). And the U.S. ""A"" ration card of 1942 provided 11 liters of gas. (Somewhere, I heard a typical 10000 ton WW2 tanker would provide enough to run on an A card for something like 7000 years...).   "