Crocheters, Knitters Can Make Radio Tubes!
Pennsylvania has a great online resource called the Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository, where you can find the actual pages of old newspapers, among other things. The best part is that you can search for specific words in these old newspapers. Amazing!
I was searching for biographical information about an old-time crochet designer, when this war-time ad appeared on the search list.
In the April 27, 1944 edition of The Ambler Gazette, page 3, National Union Radio Corporation of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, offered “Good Money for Girls and Women” for “Light, Clean, Easy, Interesting, and Essential Work.”
I love this part:
If you can sew, crochet or knit, you can learn to assemble radio tubes. It’s easy but a skill which will always be valuable to you. The tubes you help us make may save the life of some boy you know who has gone to war.
Employers of today should take notice! Knitting, crocheting, and sewing are skills that prepare people to save lives.