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V. Universities & War; Opportunities<br />
for Workers<br />
• Big US Gov’t grants mobilize higher ed for war<br />
• $117 million to MIT; Manhattan Project = $2<br />
billion<br />
• Universities join new military-industrial complex<br />
• Massive labor shortage<br />
• Increase production while withdraw 16 million<br />
• New jobs for women, African Americans,<br />
Mexican Americans, & poor whites from South<br />
• Business resist change (hiring blacks, women)<br />
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