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KS: And while we were staying there with his family, waiting for it to be, the results of Toru's bar exam, a friend of mine who was working for the U&I Sugar Company called me up and asked me if I would be interested in a job at their quality control lab. And I said why I certainly would, I just -- not doing anything up there. And so I left Toru and David with his folks and went back down to Salt Lake and I stayed with friends of mine and worked for the U&I Sugar Company and I was part of the quality control lab. At that time, you know, people ate a lot of beet sugar, because cane sugar was imported and (during) the war time, sugar was rationed really, and so the work for the U&I Sugar Company at that time was very important and it was interesting. I was paid well and we were able to get out of debt. Toru had borrowed some money from the JACL Credit Union in order to finish his studies and take the bar exam and all that. So the U&I Sugar Company helped get us out of debt.

DG: So that was '44.

KS: That was in '44.

DG: From '44.

KS: '44 til '45. Through '45.

TS: She used to mail me a package of cigarettes every day. [Laughs]

KS: Oh, no, no, every week Toru. They were rationed too. They were rationed.

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