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Interviewee: World War II, not New Deal alone, brought postwar prosperity to Montana
3347997 · May 16, 2025
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Summary
The narrator credits World War II mobilization with ending local Depression-era hardship, recalls wartime rationing in Missoula-area households and describes public reaction to atomic bombings as 'terrible.'
The interviewee said World War II, rather than New Deal programs alone, was the turning point that ended the Depression and produced a period of postwar prosperity.
The narrator described wartime conditions—rationing and limited consumer goods—and later…
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