One issue that arose in most of these boomtowns was the shortage of food even if a person had the appropriate ration stamps required to purchase an item, it was difficult to find items. Mobile, Alabama burgeoned with humanity with the influx of workers to the shipyards. Washington, DC was another city that exploded in growth as tens of thousands of workers joined the swelling ranks of bureaucracy.
Already industrial centers, many cities grew at phenomenal rates to became "boomtowns."įor example, Richmond, California more than quadrupled in population from less than 24,000 to well over 100,000. One of the myriad ways WWII impacted America was the migration of huge numbers of people from farms and rural areas to the cities, mostly in search of well-paying defense jobs or to volunteer with one of the many organizations created as a result of the war.
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