2

number of shoes Americans were allowed to purchase per year

18,000

tons of newspaper collected by Chicago children in 5 months

800

number of convicts who agreed to be bitten by malaria-infected mosquitoes in order to test treatments

110,000

number of Japanese-Americans relocated from the West Coast

33

percent of all vegetables grown in Victory Gardens

5,000

women employed at the Gary (IN) Steel Works; they were replaced by men following the war

25,000

dollars actress Heddy Lamarr was charging for kisses in hopes of raising money for the war

6

Americans killed in Oregon by a bomb-laden balloon launched from Japan in May, 1945

25

percent of the nation's oil reserves drained by the war

22,666

dollars Americans spent on Hitler's book, Mein Kampf

900

percent increase in NAACP membership from 1940-1945

40

percent of cigarettes produced exclusively for the armed forces