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Title
EW-878
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- 1943-08-25 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Seaman Basil D. Izzi shakes hands with an unidentified female employee during the sailor's visit August 25, 1943 to the Tacoma yard of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. Seaman Izzi had survived for a record 83 days on a 8x9 foot life raft adrift in the South Atlantic. In the upper left background is the "Battle of the Sexes" attendance record. In an effort to reduce absenteeism, the shipyard had turned an attendance contest into a battle of the sexes, men vs. women. The thermometer charts below show on a daily basis which group has better attendance. (Sea-Tac Keel, Vol. II, No. V, pg. 3; September 4, 1943 issue)
Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); Izzi, Basil;