Women in Wartime Work Shapes Postwar Independence Lessons
Gluck studies daughters of Rosie the Riveters to compare outcomes with daughters of nonworking women. The project highlights a surge in female labor during 1941–44 to 19.4 million, later tapering but remaining higher than prewar levels, and shows how independent earnings altered domestic power dynamics.
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Gluck
Rosie
Rockefeller Foundation
National Endowment For the Humanities
California State University
Rosie the Riveter Revisited reveals wartime women roles
University of Iowa researcher Cindy Cleary discusses her study since 1979 of women who worked in 1940s aircraft plants. Interviews with 45 of over 300 respondents show diverse experiences, empowerment, greater independence, and shifts in home life and identity beyond the Rosie stereotype.
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Gluck
Los Angeles
Nancy Stevens
Sacha
Cindy Cleary
Cleary
Rosie
Oral History Resource Center
University of California In
Long Beach
Iowa
Women’s Resource Center
University of Iowa
Aircraft Company
Union
Tourists Flock to See Capistrano Swallows Arrival
Thousands of visitors flock to San Juan Capistrano to witness the annual swallow migration tied to the Feast of St. Joseph. The event, noted in a 1939 song by Leon Rene, draws about 10 000 people as the birds nest around the mission and town caves.
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San Juan Capistrano
Calif
UPI
Millenia
South America
St. Joseph
Junipero Serra
Rene
Leon Rene
Capistrano
Mystery train believed to carry 100 warheads
Seattle protesters allege a white armored train carrying armed guards and about 100 nuclear warheads moves toward Bangor Washington to the Trident submarine base. DOE confirms nuclear material on board but cites cargo details as restricted.
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Mystery Train
Seattle
UPS
Navy
Trident
Bangor
Wash
Ben McCarty
Department of Energy
Albuquerque
N. M
Jim Douglass
Ground Zero
Washington State
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Colorado
Denver
Fort Collins
ATMX
Douglass
Trident Base
Michigan
Amarillo
Bendectin price tripled to cover legal costs in LA
The Bendectin manufacturer Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals raised the price of the morning sickness drug by 300 percent to offset legal costs from about 200 lawsuits alleging birth defects. The drug, first marketed in 1956, is linked to missing limbs and serious intestinal problems in infants.
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Los Angeles
Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals
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Preat
Food Service Department
Pontio
Anso
Royal Court
Smulekoff's
Bigelow
Smulekoff's Bigelow
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Chateau Magnifique
Chateau Parisienne
Chateau
Mann
Smulekoff
Pentagon
Pantex Corp
Texas
Anti
Agape
Price
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