AMERICANS AT WAR
FIGHTING & INDUSTRIAL MOBILISATION. INCREASING EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) WASHINGTON, December 28. The manpower director, Mr McNutt. announced that America’s war forces, including the armed s 9, rvlce ®_’ would total 62,500,000. in 1943, with the employment of an additional 2,500,000 workers. He added that this year 12,900,000 persons were engaged in agriculture, and of these 600,000 were women. It was expected that by the end of 1943 women agriculturists would number 1,000,000 besides 6,000,000 women m war plants.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 3
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