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Item
Title
EW-623
Date(s)
- 1943-07-01 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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War workers came in all ages, shapes and sizes, their only common trait being that they were not qualified for active military duty. For example, Frank Mason, Seattle-Tacoma Shipyard's Chief Marine Engineer in 1943, was 70 years old. He had been a Chief for 50 years, 21 of them with Luckenbach Steamship Lines. He first steamed around Cape Horn in 1892 and had been through the Panama Canal so many times that it seemed commonplace. Patriotism kept him at his job in wartime, when he might have retired in peacetime. (Sea-Tac Keel, Vol. II, No. II, pg. 8; July 24, 1943 issue)
Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma)--People; Mason, Frank;