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JA: And how did you buy these supplies? What did you use to purchase it?

MH: Well, like my husband, they paid him sixteen dollar a month, so he had that, and some people got ten dollar a month and things like that so they had that spending money.

JA: So from their jobs in the camp.

MH: Yeah, whatever they were doing.

JA: And... but the prices you paid for these products...

MH: Very reasonable, so we can afford it. It isn't like going outside to buy it.

JA: And then...

MH: We used to order through Montgomery catalog, too, different things that... the girls liked special clothes and things like that. So we used to order through the Montgomery catalog and things like that. That's when you start drawing your money from your savings back home and that goes deleting down, is what was happening. That's why eventually we all had to go out and work, so we can make some money so we can buy things that we wanted to buy.

JA: Now, during this time were you using just regular U.S. currency then within the camp?

MH: Uh-huh.

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