Word: willow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allotted to each fitting. In Detroit an ex-schoolmarm holds valve tappets for Wright engines to the light, and feels each one with her fingers. There must be no tiny scratch or rough spot-to wreck a plane, cost a life. In Ford's great bomber hatchery at Willow Run a woman flyer (Mary Elizabeth Von Mach) inspects motors for the big B-24s. In San Diego a young war widow strings numbered wires of an electrical subassembly, attaching the end of each to its proper terminal. In Dallas a bridge champion's wife assembles hydraulic devices which...
...skilled factory hand, Detroit was the biggest boom town of all. Tool & diemakers earned $125 to $175 a week; new girls at Briggs Body got 85? an hour. Even girl stenographers at Willow Run got $67.50 a week...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh turned up at his new job at Ford's Willow Run plant, wearing "Victory model" trousers (sans cuffs), posed with his boss for photographers...
...Detroit, another lean individualist who was also a mechanic thought he knew a good wrench man when he saw him. He could use another man at vast Willow...
Last week Henry Ford invited the wrench man to Detroit, lunched with him, pointed proudly at Willow Run, offered the onetime hero a "supervisory" job. Lindbergh said he must ask the War Department. In Washington Secretary Stimson nodded. Lindbergh begins work this week...