Ration Racket Rocks Cleveland: FBI Cracks Down on Black Market Gas

In the sweltering summer of 1944, the city of Cleveland was rocked to its core by a brazen black market scheme that threatened to undermine the very fabric of the war effort. At the center of the maelstrom was the Office of Price Administration (OPA) and the Office of Distribution and Transportation (ODT), where high-ranking officials and employees had turned their backs on the rationing system to line their pockets with cash and gasoline.