Word: rivet
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...went home. Workmen on the next shift were already swarming around a second, identical craft perched on the ways. Paddy O'Laughlin, swearing lustily, pressed another buzzer. Down to the river slid the second ship. Chortled tough, wiry Mr. O'Laughlin, who started his career as a rivet "cooker," rose to become general superintendent of the Dravo yards: "I'm so happy I feel like going home and beating up my wife...
...fashion glued-wood planes at its Maryland factory, where the aircraft industry's first women guards patrol the production lines, Fairchild puts the almost paper-thin veneers under heat and pressure in steel cylinders. Baked and pressed into shape, they are free of the rivet-bumps on aluminum alloy planes, do not wrinkle, as metal does, under the impact of gusts...
...problem in such places as the AC Spark Plug in Flint, which has employed women for years, easily converted men & women alike to machine-gun making. Briggs Mfg. Co. in Detroit simply took women from the upholstering department, taught them to put fabric on bomber wings and rivet framework...
...Vultee Aircraft in California has 536 girls (10% of its labor force). It started them filing off burrs, admitted them to training courses, promoted them to machine-shop operation, sheet metal, riveting, blueprint reading, inspection. Now they assemble all parts of the fuselage (but not the heavy engine). They slide under the conveyor; install power lines, electric systems, pedals, control parts; connect oil lines; rivet ailerons and stabilizers...
...Saves materials (and further weight) because absence of rivet holes, which weaken sheet steel, means that plates and beams can be cut from thinner steel...