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The OPA was popular through the end of WWII, and when congress and President Truman failed to reach a deal on an extension bill, causing the OPA to shutdown, there was a surge of protests and buyers strikes in the spring/summer of 1946.

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Jacobs, Meg. ""How About Some Meat?": The Office of Price Administration, Consumption Politics, and State Building from the Bottom Up, 1941-1946." The Journal of American History 84, no. 3 (1997): 910-41. Accessed April 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/2953088.

Galbraith, J. K. "Price Control: Some Lessons from the First Phase." The American Economic Review 33, no. 1 (1943): 253-59. Accessed April 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/1819009.

Bartels, Andrew H. "The Office of Price Administration and the Legacy of the New Deal, 1939-1946." The Public Historian 5, no. 3 (1983): 5-29. Accessed April 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/3377026.

Bernstein, Barton J. "Clash of Interests: The Postwar Battle between the Office of Price Administration and the Department of Agriculture." Agricultural History 41, no. 1 (1967): 45-58. Accessed April 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/3740020.