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:: Monday, March 01, 2004 ::
Local 'Rosie' shares riveting story with nation By Roy Wenzl,The Wichita Eagle
In the years after the war, 6 million former Rosie the Riveters fanned out across America: tough, self-reliant, trained to work. The women's rights movement grew, and a whole lot of other men learned to get out of the way. Or at least pay attention.
Now Irene Letourneau's seat-of-the-pants story is becoming part of history.
She had never even heard of Boeing when the bombs hit the ships at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. She was 18, a senior at Argonia High School. But by the next May, when she graduated, all sorts of Irene Haskell's girlfriends applied at Boeing in Wichita.
'You should come along too,' they told her. 'We're going to make 65 cents an hour!' By September, Irene signed up too.------------------------------------------- posted 5:24 AM :: reference link ::
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