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    1. [MAWORCES] WWII Rayethon Tubes Made in Worcester
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    3. To: maworces@rootsweb.com Well, now I have good information from my aunt Doris Clark (81) on the WWII activity. She was living with several other girls in an apartment in Worcester City. She was in a team of 5 girls making Walki Talkie miniature tubes.As she had an apartment & walked to work each day, it was likely in down town area. Her part in the tube construction was to weld the 5 sections of the tube insides together before it went into the glass envelope. She said the tubes were abt 1 & 1/2 inches tall. The 5 girls were all in a row. She said they once went into a locked side room where they were supposedly making a tube for the atomic bomb project! Not to far fetched as a company in Springfield, Standard Electric Time, was making timers for atomic bomb project. She aid the girls lived on the top floor of a large house and they apt. was in a round turret shaped top floor.She remembers a large cooper tub with claw feet that she loved to stay long times in! She said it may have been a house owned by Putnams department store folks. Putnan & Thurstan? She worked there abt one yr till end of war. She now lives in Sr. home in South Dennis MA Dick in MD

    03/23/2008 09:50:04