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Show c ,, Raised To $150 After Successfully Completing 3 Months Course never will forget her first day at Hill Field... the rush of hundreds of workers going on and off shift... the huge hangars... the roar of aircraft engines being tested night and day... the great warehouses filled with tens of thousands of parts... and the feeling that at last she was doing her share, almost a full man's share, in winning the war. She was on the day shift, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and her first task was humble enough... washing bearings of all and kinds. From the first she did herework carefully must each bearing well, taking pride in the fact that And she be spotless when it left her department. of bearings learned things, too... the different types kind of what and used in different types of engines, the sKy. planes they helped drive through first for the 8. time now faced the vexing prob-- w transportation... just as other millions Cf workers were doing throughout the nation. What as the best, quickest, most economical way daily from J ill Field? To be sure, there was the bus svstem. schedule of ten round trips. Also there was the !ith Mary of wartime interurban service, the 'Bamberger', with trips to and from Ogden and the same number to sit Lake City. Then too the parking lot of the Air Pepot was filled with thousands of cars of fellow- forkers, many living in Ogden. They drove back and orth daily, watching their tires g closely and found every gallon of gasoline. Here she er solution... an arrangement to ride to and from ts 16 safe-uardin- "fc j . with Pete Buras. mi m t m """"KSi Mary says today, is great ike doing dishes and the technique used is much ne same w USC ,olvent n place of soap and water 8nd bo u hard n the hands' On certain types of bear ing, shft used the machine to give fl finai P0Ilsn. . In a t u a sne unnersioon. ner wor mui- 0l i I find When more help was needed during rush Per' a' - ,je8j a 6 j,, flS that b 6 f 0re to repai dayj affWrk on her f8. t... AI1 this time she hoped she would be able to do actual long th engines. On Oct. 17, almost 90 chflrKe fi"t at Hill she received Field, fSt P'omotion... and was moved to the Wright te wnicn meant sne was io worn. "Wri8ht htr Mary 1ay "llon, Cyclone engine,. 10. a The layman looks at a Flying slick, stream-line- d machine. An Fortress and sees aircraft builder looks at the same Flying Fortress and sees 110,000 separate parts, welded and riveted together by thou- a sands 6f men and women who never saw the inside of bomber until less than a year ago. When Mary looks at a Flying Fortress today she sees it as a composite of bearing and engine repairs, and she believes that the quite a few of the 110,000 partstheare in make Wright of enonly Cyclone engine. So far this is 17 inasmuch as types of gine she has wrked on, but this has Wright Cyclones go through her department, Above she 90 days. kept her pretty busy in the past is safety wiring the blower section. |