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MB: And they gave tests, they, you know, they interviewed you. It wasn't that, uh, that easy.
DB: But they did have a ... they basically, though ... they, they sort of had a large selection of women to
choose from then, going to all the colleges?
MB: I guess they went to all colleges that were...
M. Easley: They hired about 90 or something that first summer, didn't they?
M. Eastwood: Uh, well they had two labs. Remember the butyl lab and the butyl dining room. And I bet
there were more than 90. I think we had 90.
MB: Now, at ours they were all college people. Over at the other lab they were not. You remember that?
Every time ...
M. Easley: That's right. Many of them were not across the street or any time.
Unidentified: Um-hmm, um-hmm. Ya they were not. But then, uh, but in our lab they were. In fact, can
you think of anybody that wasn't?
M. Easley: Uh-mm, they all were. And mostly graduates from college.
MB: Um-hmm. You were the only one.
M. Easley: I think I'm the only one that wasn't. And the only reason I got on was because I was a
chemistry major.
MB: Um-hmm.
DB: Ok, ok. Um, Mrs. Bonds ...
MB: Um-hmm?
DB: Were you expected to give up your job after the war ended?
MB: No. Now they told us we were not. We were not hired to replace anybody. That this was a new -
well, which it was - it was a new laboratory, and uh ... but, but this was a year later they made that
letter. That said you would ...
M. Easley: That says you might have to.
MB: Uh-huh.
M. Eastwood: Well, you had the understanding that you could be laid off any time they wanted.
MB: Well, now, see they didn't tell me that a year later. Uh-uh.
DB: If I'm not mistaken, I read something about, and I have it on notecards at the house, that after a
certain year, that they didn't have to sign ... they used to have to sign a card saying that they knew that
they were going to be temporaries or something, I believe. And then after a certain date, that went out
of effect. But I forget what date it was.
M. Easley: I don't believe I did.
DB: It may have been before '43.