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America's involvement in World War II dealt a severe blow to Johnson's roadside restaurants. Home-front gas rationing forced 90 percent of his restaurants to close. He survived by acquiring contracts to supply food for workers in large industrial plants and for universities training student officers. He also contracted with the government for the manufacture of candy and marmalade for the armed forces. After the war his business bounced back. In the 1950s he expanded his chains nationally and started to add motor lodges. In 1956 the gross income of the Howard Johnson Company was $175,530,695. In 1959 he passed his business on to his son, Howard B.Johnson.
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Chester H. Liebs, Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture(Boston: Little, Brown, 1985).
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