Wartown
Clip: Episode 2 | 12m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
WWII brought an end to the chronic unemployment of Mobile, AL.
The chronic unemployment that had eaten at Mobile and every other American town for more than a decade during the Depression was over.
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Wartown
Clip: Episode 2 | 12m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
The chronic unemployment that had eaten at Mobile and every other American town for more than a decade during the Depression was over.
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Clip: Ep2 | 7m 22s | During the war everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: (7m 22s)
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