Word: steelwoman
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Shofner, 43, only steelwoman on the West Coast, has had little time for ordinary partygoing. Married in 1919, she took over her husband's railroad brake-shoe foundry at Linnton, Ore. when he died four years later. Mrs. Shofner did not like the cut of the brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...
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