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The WPB decided which companies would convert from
peacetime to wartime production and allocated raw materials to key industries.

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The OPA set up a system for rationing, or establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.

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The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods. Congress also raised income tax rates and extended the tax to millions of people who had never paid it before.

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once women proved they could operate welding torches or riveting guns as well as men, employers could not hire enough of them—especially since women earned only about 60 percent as much as men doing the same jobs.

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Minority groups and their military service

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Minority groups and their military service

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“I was havin’ trouble in school. . . . The war’d been goin’ on for two years. I didn’t wanna miss it. . . . I was an American. I was seventeen.”

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The military’s work force needs were so great that Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall pushed for the formation of a Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.

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The Selective Service System expanded the draft and eventually provided another 10 million soldiers to meet the armed forces’ needs.