Seventy years ago this month, the cover of the August 1945 issue of Radio News showed two more Chicago war workers doing their part to finish the job in the Pacific.  These women are riveting wire lead preassemblies for transformers at the Standard Transformer Company’s plant in Chicago.  The colorful bundles of in front of their work station are color coded leads.

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