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September 28 “This bomber assembly plant contains what is probably the longest assembly line in the world - 3,000 feet, in a building 4,000 feet long. It employs about 8,500 people, 20 per cent of whom are women. It is expected that the percentage of women will later become 70 per cent.” Present in car: The President, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, Major General Richard Donovan, Commanding General, Eight Service Command, Mr. Newman of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, the two children of Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt |