Show grandma learns blueprinting in aircraft school in san diego theres ane one school in agrest a great building left over from the san diego exposition another in a church another even in a once vacant storeroom crammed with students the like of which has never been seen before two grandmothers one white haired the other pink cheeked checked and marce marcellea mar celled Hed bend together with compass and rulers over adjoining desks they are both learning to be mechanical ch draftsmen to turn out their share of the ten acres of blueprints required to build a single flying battleship tle ship how on earth you ask the consolidated soli dated teacher do you manage to guess that a grandmother can learn some engineering when she decides she wants to help in the war its not so difficult at that you are told first we look for evidence of artistic talent perhaps a woman has done painting painting or drawing or fine arts design perhaps she laid a career aside to bring up a family if she can draw and if she is intelligent we can easily teach her mechanical draftsmanship she is straight on her way into the engineering department in california CalL fornia where the airframe industry of the nation centers literally hundreds of ibous thousands ands of people have gone to school and are today at work doing precision jobs most of them were never before in a factory in an age that has been called revolutionary here we have the real revolution the lure of wartime money is not enough to have done this in san diego for instance consolidated early realized that the sort of workers needed must be appealed to on the basis of their patriotic willingness to serve |