Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory - Couverture souple

Bowman, Constance

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 156098368X ISBN 13 : 9781560983682

Editeur : Smithsonian Books, 2004

Synopsis

   In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life. 
   
   They also learned that wearing their factory slacks on the street caused men to treat them in a way for which their "dignified schoolteacher-hood" hadn't prepared them. At times charming, hilarious, and incredibly perceptive, Slacks and Calluses brings into focus an overlooked part of the war effort, one that forever changed the way the women were viewed in America.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Constance Bowman Reid has written many highly acclaimed biographies of twentieth-century mathematicians. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

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There they were the big bombers! But they weren't so big as we had thought they would be. We had been told the statistics: over 320 miles an hour, 34,330 pounds when empty, 110 feet in wing span, 66 feet in length, 18 feet in height; and I explained to C.M. that 34,300 pounds was about what 172 football players would weigh and that 66 feet was the equivalent of a whole football team laid end to end. These facts had impressed her, as things laid end to end always do; but even then she had said that they seemed a Little Small for a big bomber.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smithsonian Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 156098368X
• ISBN 13: 9781560983682
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Illustrateur: Allen Clara Marie