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Ekrub
12-30-2010, 01:22 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101230/ts_alt_afp/ushistorywwiifeminism

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20101230/capt.photo_1293731014019-1-0.jpg?x=400&y=274&q=85&sig=Pso3U5xo._Bwecw0AImFZQ--


"She didn't have big, muscular arms," Mrs. Gregg said. "She was 5-foot-10 and very slender. She was a glamour girl. The arched eyebrows, the beautiful lips, the shape of the face -- that's her."

Doyle was just 17 when she took at job at a metal pressing plant near Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1942.

She quit about two weeks later after learning that another woman had badly injured her hand on the job -- she was worried she'd lose the ability to play the cello, her daughter said.

She was there, however, when a United Press International photographer came to the factory while documenting the contribution of women to the war effort.

Sorry but I found that quote funny.