Office of Temporary Controls

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The Office of Temporary Controls was a U.S. government agency established near the end of World War II to coordinate and administer various wartime economic controls, including price, rent, and rationing programs, during the transition to a peacetime economy.


Statements (45)
Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal agency
appliesToJurisdiction United States
country United States
hasRole administration of price controls
administration of rationing programs
administration of rent controls
administration of temporary economic regulations
administrative consolidation of temporary agencies
administrative supervision of subordinate control agencies
advising the President on economic control policy
centralization of economic stabilization functions
collection of data on prices, rents, and rationing
coordination of decontrol measures
coordination of interagency economic control activities
coordination of multiple wartime agencies
coordination of price, rent, and rationing policies
coordination of rollback of wartime controls
coordination of wartime economic controls
coordination of wartime price and rationing enforcement
ensuring compliance with federal control regulations
implementation of federal economic control legislation
implementation of presidential directives on economic controls
integration of wartime control programs
management of transition from wartime to peacetime economy
orderly liquidation of emergency economic programs
oversight of consumer rationing
oversight of price stabilization policies
oversight of rent stabilization
phasing out wartime controls
policy guidance for wartime economic controls
postwar economic adjustment planning
prevention of postwar inflation
protection of consumers during transition period
public communication on economic control policies
regulatory oversight of civilian economy during late World War II
supervision of regional and local control offices
support for equitable distribution of scarce goods
support for housing stability through rent control
support for maintaining civilian morale through fair rationing
support for orderly demobilization of wartime economy
support for preventing speculative price increases
support for stabilization of cost of living
support of postwar reconversion policies
partOf Executive branch of the United States government
subordinateTo Executive Office of the President of the United States

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Civilian Production Administration
Office of Price Administration
replacedBy

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