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X. Wartime Prosperity<br />

• Employment, wages, & savings skyrocket<br />

• OPA set prices to control inflation<br />

• US Gov’t finance war with deficits<br />

• US debt balloon ($49 billion to $259 billion)<br />

• Map <strong>27</strong>.2: 15 million people move during war<br />

• Strain resources of burgeoning cities/towns<br />

• Some in North dislike poor whites from<br />

South<br />

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