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6) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
Finally tonight “Rosie the Riveter” is not done yet. Actually this Rosie's name is Elinor Otto of Long Beach, California. At age 93, she's still doing the same work she started doing in 1942 as part of the famous “Rosie the Riveter _____________” back of World War II. She is something of a local legend now. Deservedly the last of her era still on the job and if you need inspiration, here it is. NBC's Mike Taibbi has her story.
5:00 in the morning, leaving for work. A short drive, a stop for coffee, a brief staff meeting.
“All right, everybody. Let's hit it.”
And then Elinor Otto, 93, is at her position at the Boeing plant, driving in more of the 3,000 rivets in a wing section for a C-17 cargo plane.
“I'm a working person, I guess. I like to get up, get out of the house, and get something accomplished during the day not be put out in _______________.”
She's been doing it since 1942, starting at 65 cents an hour. One of thousands of American women who helped the war effort by joining the “Rosie the Rivet Brigades” memorialized in song.
When the war ended “The Roses” disappeared.
“Within days we were gone”.
Elinor, a young beauty with a son and in need of a paycheck tried office work and even _____________ before ________________ when the Southern California aircraft industry still had a place for her. And she's never left it, admired by co-workers like Craig Ryba.
“She goes _______________ job like anybody else.”
And answer to the questions even her boss Don Pitcher sometimes has on those inevitable bad days.
“Why am I slowing up? Why am I at home? Elinor is at work and Elinor is 93 years old.”
That “Rosie the Riveter - We Can Do It" ______________ became a ____________ for the women’s movement and Elinor likes that.
“Is this appropriate work for a woman?”
“What do you think? It's not?”
But she's here mostly because there is nothing she would rather do.
“There is an old joke that despite the high cost of living it remains popular. Elinor, one of those people who will do whatever it takes to feel alive.”
And this does it for her -- showing up each day for a job she can still do, now at nearly $40 an hour, a worker happy among workers.
For 70 years now. Mike Taibbi, NBC News, Long Beach, California
6) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
Finally tonight “Rosie the Riveter” is not done yet. Actually this Rosie's name is Elinor Otto of Long Beach, California. At age 93, she's still doing the same work she started doing in 1942 as part of the famous “Rosie the Riveter _____________” back of World War II. She is something of a local legend now. Deservedly the last of her era still on the job and if you need inspiration, here it is. NBC's Mike Taibbi has her story.
5:00 in the morning, leaving for work. A short drive, a stop for coffee, a brief staff meeting.
“All right, everybody. Let's hit it.”
And then Elinor Otto, 93, is at her position at the Boeing plant, driving in more of the 3,000 rivets in a wing section for a C-17 cargo plane.
“I'm a working person, I guess. I like to get up, get out of the house, and get something accomplished during the day not be put out in _______________.”
She's been doing it since 1942, starting at 65 cents an hour. One of thousands of American women who helped the war effort by joining the “Rosie the Rivet Brigades” memorialized in song.
When the war ended “The Roses” disappeared.
“Within days we were gone”.
Elinor, a young beauty with a son and in need of a paycheck tried office work and even _____________ before ________________ when the Southern California aircraft industry still had a place for her. And she's never left it, admired by co-workers like Craig Ryba.
“She goes _______________ job like anybody else.”
And answer to the questions even her boss Don Pitcher sometimes has on those inevitable bad days.
“Why am I slowing up? Why am I at home? Elinor is at work and Elinor is 93 years old.”
That “Rosie the Riveter - We Can Do It" ______________ became a ____________ for the women’s movement and Elinor likes that.
“Is this appropriate work for a woman?”
“What do you think? It's not?”
But she's here mostly because there is nothing she would rather do.
“There is an old joke that despite the high cost of living it remains popular. Elinor, one of those people who will do whatever it takes to feel alive.”
And this does it for her -- showing up each day for a job she can still do, now at nearly $40 an hour, a worker happy among workers.
For 70 years now. Mike Taibbi, NBC News, Long Beach, California
