The Story of a Real-Life “Rosie the Riveter”
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, while the men served in WWII, women also served by filling the spots in factories that men left behind. Unmatched in their value, these women provided an essential service that would help bring us to victory and make America the most powerful country in the world.
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| 0:06.1 | I'll sit down with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment, and politics |
| 0:11.8 | to explore their toughest moments and the incredible comebacks that followed. Listen to Wide |
| 0:17.4 | Open with Ashland Harris, an Iheart women's sports production on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:26.5 | Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. |
| 0:30.5 | Hi, this is Alex Kanswitz. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm the host of Big Technology podcast, a longtime reporter and an on-air contributor to CNBC. |
| 0:37.3 | And if you're like me, you're trying to figure out how artificial intelligence is changing the business world and our lives. |
| 0:42.9 | So each week on big technology, I bring on key actors from companies building AI tech asking where this is all going. |
| 0:49.4 | They come from places like Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and plenty more. So if you want to be smart with your wallet, |
| 0:55.0 | your career choices, and at dinner parties, listen to Big Technology podcast on the Iheart Radio app, |
| 1:00.3 | Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This season on my podcast, |
| 1:07.3 | here's the thing. I speak with musician, photographer and philanthropist Julian Lennon. |
| 1:13.1 | One of the really important things that happened to me with photography was I would have people |
| 1:18.2 | write to me, people that couldn't financially afford to travel the world. And what they had all |
| 1:23.9 | said to me is that you bring these stories to us. You bring the truth, you bring |
| 1:28.5 | cultures that we would never necessarily know anything about. Listen to the new season of Here's |
| 1:34.1 | the Thing on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:40.4 | I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told, |
| 1:45.2 | where I dig into crimes where a woman is not just a victim. |
| 1:48.3 | She might be the detective, the lawyer, the witness, the coroner, the criminal, or some mix of those roles. |
| 1:54.0 | Because these are the stories we need to know to understand the intersection of society, |
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