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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.

Bettye McCubbin discusses the letters she sent to high school friends who were serving overseas during World War II.

"To me that was a lot of money," says Bettye McCubbin of her monthly salary working at an airplane engine manufacturing plant.

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.

Bettye McCubbin describes her rural childhood in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Bettye McCubbin describes her first dates with her husband Jim, a veteran of World War II.

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."

Bettye McCubbin describes how her college sorority contributed to the war effort.

Bettye McCubbin describes how she left college to take a clerical job at Pratt &Whitney, a manufacturer of airplane engines.

Bettye McCubbin describes a typical workday at the Pratt& Whitney airplane engine manufacturing plant.