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Women Enter Industrial Jobs Amid War Labor Shift
Miss Geneva Fiene of Kankakee becomes Joliet Public Service meter reader the first woman in the role as thousands of youths join the armed forces. Women already enter Gary steel mills and Joliet planners prepare to train more at Collins Street plant.
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American Steel & Wire Company
Miss Geneva Fiene
Joliet and
Will County
Armed Forces of America
Uncle Sam
Miss Fiene
Kankakee
Public Service Company
Gary
Joliet
Collins ‘Street