The Sikorsky Sweater Girls - UI Podcast #057

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2012

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Back in 1943, 53 women were fired by Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft for wearing sweaters to work. Listen to this story to discover the details and how it was ultimately resolved. Also, learn about the first native Australian act to have a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, the man who kissed his wife, the holiday wedding that completed a family circle, and a couple that married twenty years after they were first engaged. Retrosponsor: Jello Gelatin Audio, transcript, and images can be found at https://uselessinformation.org/sikorsky-sweater-girls/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:04.0	Hi, I'm Neil. And I'm Ken.
0:06.0	And we are from The Triviality Podcast,
0:09.0	a pub trivia style game show where a lack of seriousness meets a little bit of knowledge.
0:13.0	Join us each week for an hour long game of general knowledge trivia featuring special guests from around the world.
0:19.0	Plus, tons of extra themed episodes.
0:21.0	If you want to improve your trivia game,
0:23.5	or you just want to scream at us in your car
0:25.3	when we get easy questions wrong,
0:27.0	then we're the show for you.
0:28.4	Find Triviality on all your favorite podcast apps.
0:31.3	But you know that, because you're already listening to a
0:33.3	podcast.
0:35.3	Useless information.
0:39.3	Hi I'm Steve Silverman and Yilsing to a classic episode of the
0:45.7	Useless Information Podcast. The story that you're about to hear the Sikorsky
0:50.7	sweater girls is one of those quirky ones that made headlines back in
0:54.1	1943 but was then quickly forgotten about.
0:58.7	I first released this back on October 7th of 2012. What I do recall about the story is that I wrote it while undergoing
1:06.7	a 24-hour sleep study at a nearby sleep clinic. And what they would do is they'd wake me every single hour had all this equipment hooked up to me.
1:15.0	And it was during those breaks that I penned this episode.
1:20.0	One thing I should point out about the audio is that the file that I had seemed to drag a bit, so I have sped this up a little bit.
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