One of the seldom remembered branches of the War Production Board was the Women’s Labor Supply Services which was headed by Thelma McKelvey:

“This captain of industry expects to see women workers in factories and farms increase from 700,000 today to 4,000,000 by mid-1943.”


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Thelma McKelvey worked to end ww2 draft deferments for US menThelma McKelvey of the Women's Labor Supply ServicesWomen's Labor Supply Services of the War Production Board 1942American women were widely employed during WW2 to free men for military service
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