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D10545-1
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- 1940-12-05 (Creation)
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In December of 1940, an instructor demonstrates the use of a welding machine to his student in their makeshift classroom in the basement of the Hawthorne School. 140 men are participating in the classes that will produce wartime workers for the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. The welding machines are operating 24 hours a day as the men prepare for their new jobs. Most already work in the shipyards as welders helpers. The instructors are master welders on loan from the shipyard. The costs of the program are being paid by the school district which will be reimbursed by the national defense training program. (T. Times 12/9/1940, pg. 1)
Welding; Hawthorne School (Tacoma); Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma;