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BIG ARMY ORDERotheho 11 craf I Met ! sha|1 the ‘The ' pie i er.RECEIVED MONDAYBY BATH PANT CO.quit| . peritrailthevanWill Make 17,000Pairs of Pants forAviation Officers1 j A big contract was received Monday for another Hath industry. and not connected with shipbuilding. it was for 17.000 pairs! of aviation cadets officers’ training pants. The Army wishes work upon them rushed as rap-! idly as possible and more orders I will follow this one. jTo till this order the Bath Pant i ; Co., formerly the Commercial!Trading Co., needs at once about | i fit) more hands, mostly women f who will be given steady work dat good pay. This Government ' order is in addition to large com-- mercial orders already under-- way The Army wants this or-. der tilled at once and it will bedoing good work for the men ini- service if women will apply j s! promptly at the factory. Bert ) Irwin is manager of the plant- and J. Emery and Harold Footer- are owners of the property which t j was purchased a few months ago s when the Commercial Trading ? Co. c* ssolved.s' The present employes of the \ plant have already gone 100 per r cent for the purchase of defense. bonds.s There is little doubt but this I plant will be kept busy for the i duration of the war as the Feder-,al Government has promised all of the work it can do and is i ready to follow this initial order i with another as soon as the com-t panv can undertake it. p Women who wish to take* part f in tins defense work, at good- wages and under pleasant work-a mg conditions, should lose no r. time in applying as the work willbe started at once.
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Bath Independent

Bath, Maine, US

Thu, Feb 26, 1942

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