Item Detail
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30178
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English
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Supply Hub of the West : Defense Depot Ogden, 1941-1964
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April 1964
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32
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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The Utah Historical Society
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99-121
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"It is difficult to overestimate the importance to the Utah economy of the the federal defense installations constructed int he Beehive state during World War II. In the Ogden area alone the Army, Navy, and Air Force poured almost $100 million into permanent facilities, and the number of employees at the installations during the war almost 52,000 persons - easily as many as in all of Utah's agriculture - 50 per cent more than in all of Utah's manufacturing a the time. The investment in such facilities in the Ogden rea was mor than twice the assessed valuation of Ogden for 1942 and more than one-half times the assessed valuation of Weber County." [Author]