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1
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When is the play set
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August 1947
2 years after the end of WW2
2
Q
Effect of WW2
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Elevated the US out of a crippling and decade-long financial depression
Put millions back to work
3
Q
Changed Americans
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wider responsibility
survivors guilt
4
Q
True Story
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Curtiss- wright factory
Aeroplane manufacturers in Ohio
awarded the second largest contract—at the time—given to a private company
had conspired with army inspection officers to approve defective aircraft engines destined for military use
5
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Roosevelt 1943
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He increased industrial moblisation for the war requiring 125,000 new aircrafts…shows the pressure on factories manufacturing these parts…some sympathy for Joe, who would’ve been ‘out of business’ if he hadn’t sold the parts
6
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Didactic
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play intends to teach
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