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Mrs. Edgar A. Luce, Board of Directors of Consolidated Aircraft, 1940-1949. ©SDHC 1997:42-5-n.
The urgency of finding more women in the workforce to staff the processes
grew increasingly desperate as the war progressed. In July 1941, women trickled,
then flooded, into the ranks until they reached 42 percent of the workforce in May
1944. Part-time workers made up about 1.2 percent of the total employment, and
some military personnel worked on a casual basis. 29 One day when the labor pool
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