The Great Plains During World War II

Bomb Fuze Line
at Motor Works

"I USED to think I was pretty good until we got his job of making bomb fuzes of the government," said Foreman H. A. Schoenthal of the Cushman Motor works, Lincoln.

The tolerance government inspectors allow, he explained, is measured in thousandths of an inch and any rough spot that can be felt with the fingernail is considered a burr.

Cushman Motor is one of the state's largest "small" plants, employing hundreds of men and women. The auto-glide formerly made for civilian use now goes almost exclusively to the armed forces. The bomb fuze, of complex mechanism not for publication, is put together on an assembly almost entirely of women. Into this essential piece of war material, only a few inches high, go 26 parts. Three parts are brass, the remainder steel.