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Article: Upland grove idea a lifesaver during Depression
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- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
- Article date:
- July 8, 2006
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It was just about the worst of times in the Inland Valley.
The Great Depression was relentlessly tightening its grip on the
world; jobs were scarce and money was even harder to find.
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But amid all this despair was a little-remembered act by a
government official that offered a glimmer of hope to many while
paying big dividends to the city of Upland in coming years.
In those Depression years, the region was reeling from the
virtual shutdown of the nation's economy. It was so bad in late 1930
that the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors ordered the
firing of any woman county employee married to a gainfully employed
man. The county wanted to fill those ...