riveter

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She learned long ago, holding a riveter in her hand, that limits don’t always apply and anyone can forge a path forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

At 97, Susan King still recalls how she came from her family’s home in Virginia’s Lancaster County to work as a riveter, making parts for aircraft at a factory in Baltimore during World War II.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

John Hume was born in Derry on Jan. 18, 1937, the eldest of seven children of Sam Hume, a shipyard riveter who lived for many years on state welfare, and Annie Doherty Hume.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2020

He worked as a riveter for Boeing to help pay his way through UW School of Law, where he graduated in 1958.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2018

She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady