Radio mirror (July-Dec 1943)

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THESE ENGAGED GIRLS ARE ALL WAR WORKERS ! ANNE NISSEN— handles explosives in a big munitions plant. This was Anne's first job. She has been promoted step by step, and has become a "job-instructor," training other girls. MARTHA MONTGOMERY— an accredited first-aider, is especially interested in wartime care of small children. Proper care for children of working mothers is one of the most vitally important home-front war jobs, and one in which understanding workers are urgently needed. PHY LIS GRAY— tests tensile strength of fabric for parachute bags, tents, uniforms! She went straight from college into war industry, working for a big Textile Company. ^ /,', .A MURIEL LUNGER— is gravely serious about her war job at Bendix where she tests altimeters for planes. Muriel's mother has a war job at Bendix, too — on the assembly line. ROSEMARIE HEAVEY— is one of the new airline girls affectionately dubbed "hangar helpers." They work in 8-hour shifts — in jobs that only men were filling a year ago. Any job that frees a man is a war job ... find yours today ! Slim and pretty Anne Nissen, engaged to Larry Van Orden (now in the Army) , sums it up like this: "I couldn't have Larry do all the fighting, I wanted to do my share". . . so she took the job a man left behind ! What are you doing? Right now there are hundreds of different war jobs for women and girls — especially necessary home-front jobs that need to he filled because the men who held them are now with our armed forces. Women and girls must take their places. Many areas need women in all kinds of civilian jobs — in stores, offices, restaurants, plants, laundries, in transportation, in community services. Experience is not necessary. Hundreds of thousands of girls and women who never dreamed of working before are stepping into these jobs every day. There's a war job for you, too! Look through the Help Wanted section of your paper for needs in your area. Then get advice from your local United States Employment Service. They will gladly help you find the job you are suited to serve in. America at war needs women at work. Apply for your war job now ! typical of so m today J and w°*en Phonal 'a'^** girls have «•„ *<* rSnfmi5Ul0n so as loir? UP efficient £fem»"'«e for $ a'e As PayU G doesn't Ca ysays—"A, nave 1 1 re^s° it meana Ior/"ssy poN D'S fj|# °'°"y Price '*"'<"» VM WORE WOMEN AT WORK -THE SOONER WELL WIN 53