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Jinx Falkenburg, swore her Hollywood pressagent, was something more than a pin-up girl: students at an Army flight school (unnamed) had affixed her picture to planes in a really permanent way-she was the first rivet-up girl ever...
...tobacco warehouse). When the plant is fully equipped this summer, Reynolds' capacity for parts will be six times its current rate-and today's figure is 40 times what it was a year ago. Current production includes some 70,000 different parts for 16 different planemakers from rivet washers to wing sections...
...first warm breezes, traveling north, carried the familiar small sounds of spring: the honk of wild geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
...Concentrate heat in small areas even deep within the insides of larger objects-to bake, dry, glue, stitch, anneal, weld, rivet...
Order 9250. In its simplest terms, Jimmy Byrnes's job is to rivet a lid on civilian economy that will prevent an uncontrolled inflation from breaking out. In the words of Executive Order 9250, he is directed to "formulate and develop a comprehensive national economic policy relating to the control of civilian purchasing power, prices, rents, wages, salaries, profits, rationing, subsidies and all related matters"; and is given the absolute power to order any Government administrator to carry out the points of that policy...