Swords and Ploughshares
(NE of the many interesting stories of the Home Front in war-time which have reached us since then was Swords and Ploughshares, the story of an adventure in steel production, broadcast recently from 3YA. It is, quite simply, the story of a factory, built and organised by a handful of men who relied for their labour on
willing: but inexperienced local help. It is not a_ specially dramatic or exciting story. No bombs fell on the factory, nobody did anything specially heroic. But when manpower was so short that there
| were no men left for the exacting and dangerous job of pouring the steel, two girls volunteered; and that seems to me to be just about as exciting and heroic as anything ever is. There has been no attempt to varnish this whole account with a coating of drama and romance. The facts stand by themselves as a prosaic description of the fortunes of a steel factory, which was created for the purpose of making bomb cases and which continues to-day by making farm implements.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 440, 28 November 1947, Page 8
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178Swords and Ploughshares New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 440, 28 November 1947, Page 8
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