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May 20, 2016 7:00 AM CDT Rosie the Riveter: Why She Loved Codes and Standards! Full Contact Project Management By Raise your hand if you have a mom or a grandmother.
This is for you! As mason contractors, we might not get all that excited about the subject of codes and standards. Gta fast and furious 2 game free download softonic. Hard to believe, but there was a time in our country when builders didn’t pay much attention to them — until buildings started to fail, unprofessional tradesmen got away with poor workmanship, and lives were put in danger.
Laws, rules and regulations usually come about because of a disregard for things like codes and standards. It’s important enough to be a focus topic in this month’s magazinebut I digress. Let’s get back to that mom and grandmother thing. During the buildup to World War II, military planners foresaw the coming need for airplanes — lots and lots of airplanes — to deal with the looming menace in Europe.
How did we, as a country, tackle this problem back then? Head-on, as we always did! Consider the story of Rosie the Riveter and the B24 Liberator bomber. Army Air Force put out a request in 1939 for bids for the design and construction of a brand-new bomber that met the following criteria: • 290+ mph top speed. • 25,000-foot service ceiling, 28,000-foot maximum altitude. • Oxygen masks mandatory. • Non-pressurized (or heated) cabin, –50° cabin temperatures.
• 8,000-pound maximum bomb load. • Gas tank capacity of 2,700 gallons. • Powered by four 1,200-horsepower engines.
• Takeoff weight of 60,000 pounds. • Assembled from 30,000+ parts. • Held together by 340,000 rivets installed by American housewives, called Rosie the Riveters, or Rosies. With a flight crew of 10, mostly 18- to 20-year-olds manning the machine gun turrets, and with pilots averaging only 22 years of age, it’s not a stretch to say that the typical McDonald’s restaurant today has an older staff and more years of experience than these bomber crews that saved Europe and Western Civilization. The military was building not only planes and ships, but also soldiers and sailors — millions of them. Those working in the aircraft industry didn’t last long in civilian jobs. Employee turnover rate was as high as 88% per year through the draft and enlistments.
In my hometown of San Diego (a little before my time), one-quarter to one-third of the county’s population was working on aircraft for the military — some 42,000 people. At the height of the war years’ production, 43% of the workforce was female. Statistically, that’s about 18,000 Rosies just in San Diego! Across the country, Rosies numbered in the millions. And Rosie wasn’t just a riveter.