Industry & Innovation
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Industry & InnovationBomber City
By 1944 the Associated Press put Willow Run's output at close to one heavy bomber every working hour. The workers came by the tens of thousands. And the town spent 1942 arguing about a city for them that the government swore it would not build — and then had to.
Source · The Ypsilanti Daily Press, June 25, 1942, p. 1 -
Industry & InnovationAn Exceptionally Opportune Time
For two and a half years the Kennewick Courier-Reporter covered the largest construction project in Washington State without being able to say what it was. On August 9, 1945, it found out — along with everyone else, and on the same day.
Source · The Kennewick Courier-Reporter, August 9, 1945, p. 1
