What kind of things did Minneapolis Moline produce during the war?
DS: That I’m not sure. I know it was something critical, but I’m just not sure what the effort was. TS: You were still working at essentially the same job? DS: My particular corner of the world didn’t change that much. I was a part of the Canadian Division, accounting. That I don’t think really changed as far as the war effort was concerned. TS: Did they take on more people during the war? DS: The company policy changed, whereas prior to the war a married lady could not work. If you got married you were dismissed because they wanted to give the gentlemen the job, because they were supposedly supporting families. But immediately, the war changed everything. It didn’t make any difference if you had a family or whatever. The men were off to war and the gals just filled in the blanks. TS: So they were then happy to have women, married or unmarried? DS: Right. There were no restrictions at all. TS: Had it been mostly women working in your office before the war? When you first started, for e
