Friday, June 22, 2012

Rosie the riveter plant

  • The plant where the real Rosie the Riveter worked on bomber planes during World War II has been saved from dismantling, even though the site is worth three to four times dismantled than it is whole. The 321-acre Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Mich.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • More than 150 people on Tuesday attended the ceremony at the site of the former Curtiss-Wright plant to unveil the Rosie statue It is epitomized by Rosie the Riveter.
  • (NorthJersey.com)
  • Wood, 89, worked at a naval plant during the war, putting screws on bombs Earl Ray Tomblin declared Rosie the Riveter Day, - featured girls from the St.
  • (Charleston Gazette)
  • Once union jobs made a middle class in L.A. At the Firestone tire plant in South Gate is meant to look a bit like Rosie the Riveter.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • The deadline to register is Wednesday, June 13.
  • (Business Wire)
  • Rosie the Riveter is an iconic figure in U.S. history representing American women who worked in factories during the Second World War, including the Willow Run plant that built B-24 and B-29 bombers.
  • (Reuters UK)
  • Schore worked through the war in a Chicago plant that made B-29 bomber engines. She was the payroll secretary, but hoped to be a Rosie the Riveter. Conrad also held secretarial duties at the Florence Stove plant, which made shells for the duration of the war.
  • (Kankakee Daily Journal)
  • After graduation from high school she worked for Douglas Aircraft at a plant that was built on part of the present day Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City. They built C-47 Skytrain cargo aircraft and she was a "Rosie the Riveter.
  • (Goldendale Sentinel)
  • Rosie the Riveter is an iconic figure in U.S. history representing American women who worked in factories during the Second World War, including the Willow Run plant that built B-24 and B-29 bombers.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Hopes for Tuesdays election and Wisconsins future: Frings, who appeared in a video touting Walkers changes and has hosted the governor at his Mosinee plant, said he considers Hes got to.
  • (Oshkosh Northwestern)

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