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Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations . Aberdeen sd, 90–91 Abilene ks, 255 Abilene tx, 6, 278 Adams, Alva B., 20 Adams County co, 301 Ada ok, 90, 101 Advanced Twin-Engine Training School, 244 African American Hostess Club, 257 African Americans: and agricultural labor shortage, 212, 231; at colleges and universities, 304; in defense industries, 50, 55, 386; discrimination against, xii, 254–62, 280, 388–97, 400; migration of, 53; in military towns, 254–62, 255, 257, 280; and nurses’ training, 65; and venereal disease, 265, 267–69; wartime experience of, x–xi; as women employees , 73–74, 231 Afrika Korps, 312, 338, 341, 342 Agricultural Adjustment Act (1938), 156 Agricultural Adjustment Administration (aaa): and agricultural machinery shortage, 162, 166–68, 213; and aid to Britain and France, 155; and cattle production, 176, 179; effect of war on, 147–49; maintenance of, 150–52; and wheat prices and production, 158 Agricultural Farm Labor Conference, 323 agricultural labor: and agricultural machinery shortage, 170, 171; and agricultural prices, 160–61; and cattle production , 179–80, 182, 186; causes of shortage of, 188–90; cost of, 172; draft for, 199–201; from internment camps, 293, 295–97, 300, 302–3, 306–10; and military, 19, 154–55, 171, 179–80, 182, 189–96, 201–3, 208–15, 217–18, 224, 231, 235; on Native American land, 354; postwar, 214–15, 382; from prisoner-of-war camps, 210, 314–17, 321–33, 342–43; in Texas, 166, 398; volunteer, 197–98; work schedules for, 223. See also Bracero Program agricultural machinery: and Japanese workers, 308; and prisoners of war, 325; shortage of, 161–68, 164, 166, 170, 171, 209, 212, 213, 215, 382; women’s operation of, 225, 227, 229– 33. See also tractors agriculture: and Great Depression, 4; as major industry, xi, 43, 59; and Native Americans, 195, 349, 351, 353–59, 355, 360, 362–63, 368–69, 372; need for federal programs for, 10, 149, 151, 173, 186–87, 195, 216, 235, 380–81, 400; postwar, 171–73, 184, 378, 380–84, 399–400; prices of, 147–62, 164–65, 170, 172–73, 176–79, 196, 368–69, 380–81, 400, 430n71. See also cattle production; farmers; victory gardens A. G. Sherwood Construction Company, 319 Ainsworth ne, 279 air bases: appropriations for, 242–45, 437n16; closure of, 278–79, 399; construction and establishment of, 242–52, 273–80, 361. See also military bases; pilots aircraft industry: and agricultural labor, 196, 428n43; employees of, 46, 48–51, 209, 386; expansion of, xi–xii; and gasoline rationing, 127, 129; Native Americans in, 360; postwar, 55, 59, index 478 aircraft industry (cont.) 378, 379; and procurement of contracts , 35–38, 41–42; in Wichita ks, 36–38, 36, 43–45, 52, 54, 55, 66–67, 77–80, 107, 193, 196, 199, 247–48, 360, 361, 378, 388; women in, 62–64, 66–67, 69–71, 74–75, 77, 78, 80, 82–84. See also specific companies air raid drills, 88–89, 118 Albin wy, 328 Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, 219 Albuquerque Journal, 381–82 Albuquerque nm: air raid drills in, 88; housing shortage in, 111; Japanese in, 293; meat shortage in, 135; Native Americans in, 360; as part of Great Plains, ix–x; population of, 58; postwar , 60, 376, 387–88; scrap drives in, 97; venereal disease in, 269–70; volunteerism in, 93 alcoholic beverages: and juvenile delinquency , 105; and military, 256, 270– 73, 278, 279; and Native Americans, 362, 363; opposition to, 100–102; postwar, 375, 376 Alien Land Law Amendment, 301 Alien Registration Act (1940), 282 aliens: decision to confine, 284–85; registration of, 282–83. See also prisoners of war (pows); specific countries or nationalities Allen County ks, 164 Alliance Army Base, 363 Alliance Livestock Commission, 175 Alliance ne, 65, 253, 273–74, 279 Allied Dry Forces, 256, 272 Alma ne, 117 Amache: agricultural laborers from, 307– 10; closure of, 303; establishment of, 288, 295; life at, 295–303, 311 Amarillo Air Service, 237 Amarillo Army Air Field, 78 Amarillo Chamber of Commerce, 114 Amarillo College, 46 Amarillo Daily News, 288–89 Amarillo Globe, 130 Amarillo News and Globe, 68, 292 Amarillo tx: agricultural prices in, 152; Asians in, 292; defense industries in, 34–35, 58, 78; housing shortage in, 112, 114; infrastructure of, 56; meat shortage in, 133–34; military in, 237, 239, 241, 242, 264, 389; national defense program in, 87, 89; nurses in, 64; patriotism in, 118; prewar, 27; prisoners of war in...