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Women aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their production records in a West Coast airplane factory. Feminine operators of tapping machines in this plant have made 400 more tapping operations in the seven and one half hour swingw shift than men employed on the eight hour day shi
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Credit lineWomen aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their production records in a West Coast airplane factory. Feminine operators of tapping machines in this plant have made 400 more tappin. 1942-01-01. Bransby, David, United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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