Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Woman welder who has been welding the ejection chutes of fifty callibre machine guns

Buffalo, New York. Gladys Chase, thirty-five, was a beautician for thirteen years before becoming a scarfer. Scarfing is the removing of breaks, seams, cracks, lap wells and defects from steel billets by the use of a burning torch and takes six months to learn this process which is called scarfing

Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, now she is the only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Buffalo, New York. Esther O'Hara, twenty-six, is a shearman's helper trimming defects from machine gun barrels at Republic Steel. She prefers her job to housework

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Gladys Chase (left), former beautician, using an acetylene torch to burn defects from a twenty-foot steel billet which will later be shaped into a machine gun barrel. It takes six months to learn this process, which is called scarfing

Bell Aircraft Corporation, Niagara Falls, New York. Safety goggles and masks are worn by workers on operations where their eyes might be endangered by metal fragments

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Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc.

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