Army & Navy - MANPOWER: Women & Machines

The U.S. manpower problem is rapidly coming round to the inevitable solution: womanpower. Slacks and hairnets dot the nation's warplants now —and thousands on thousands of women stand ready to rear munitions as well as children. The U.S. had no trouble in converting women to war —the problem was to get enough war work for the women to do.

Last week the President announced that registration of women for war work had to be abandoned because 1,500,000 women who want jobs are already registered at U.S. Employment Service offices. And of the...

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