Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

close to doubling, it wasn’t easy for the
employees themselves to absorb the full
impact of the organization’s unusual
mission or the unusual assemblage of
people carrying it out.
But just one month before Dorothy’s
trip from Farmville, Air Scoop covered
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox’s oneday
junket to the laboratory. Fifteen
hundred employees filed into the
Structures Research Laboratory, a
cavernous facility located across a dusty
clearing from the Warehouse Building, to
hear Knox’s address. He congratulated
the NACA for leading all federal
agencies in employee purchases of war
bonds—larger versions of the war
stamps on sale at the Moton school—and
lauded them for the research that turned
an unreliable prototype of a dive bomber