<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwAZ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rationing in the United Kingdom">Food rationing in Great Britain</a> ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwAZ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>, and nearly a decade after the war's end.