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What percent of the food prices were frozen by the Office of Price Administration?

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These regulations were gradually modified and extended by OPA administrators—notably Leon Henderson (1941-42), Prentiss H. Brown (1943), and Chester B. Bowles (1943-46)—until almost 90% of the retail food prices were frozen.

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