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Bettye McCubbin describes how the Office of Price Administration controlled the price of housing so that servicemen and home front workers could find places to live.
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Bettye McCubbin discusses the letters she sent to high school friends who were serving overseas during World War II.
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"To me that was a lot of money," says Bettye McCubbin of her monthly salary working at an airplane engine manufacturing plant.
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Bettye McCubbin describes a stint living with her sister in California and working for the United States Employment Service in the year before the U.S. entered the Second World War.
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Bettye McCubbin describes her rural childhood in Lee's Summit, Missouri.
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Bettye McCubbin describes her first dates with her husband Jim, a veteran of World War II.
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Bettye McCubbin describes her first postwar job as a reporter at the Kansas City Star, "supposed to be the best newspaper in the middle west."
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Bettye McCubbin describes how her college sorority contributed to the war effort.
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Bettye McCubbin describes how she left college to take a clerical job at Pratt &Whitney, a manufacturer of airplane engines.
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Bettye McCubbin describes a typical workday at the Pratt& Whitney airplane engine manufacturing plant.
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