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This article, published in the Wichita Beacon, addresses the farm work-related backgrounds of many Boeing employees in Wichita, Kansas.
Creator: Wichita Beacon
Date: October 25, 1942
This article can be used to give students a sense of the backgrounds of many workers in Wichita's aircraft industry.
KS: 11th: 2.4.: understands the role of Kansas aviation companies in World War II
Item Number: 213780
Call Number: K 629.13, vol. 3, Aviation Clippings
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213780
Agriculture - Labor
Business and Industry - Aviation - Production - Boeing
Business and Industry - Labor - Employees
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Collections - Library
Curriculum - 11th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1930-1945 (Kansas_Benchmark 2) - Aviation companies in World War II (Indicator 4)
Date - 1940s - 1942
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
Places - Cities and towns - Wichita
Places - Counties - Sedgwick
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Transportation - Air Travel - Military
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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