riveter

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She learned long ago, holding a riveter in her hand, that limits don’t always apply and anyone can forge a path forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023

As a young adult, he attended art classes at night and took whatever blue-collar work came his way, including dishwasher, warehouse stocker and aircraft riveter.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

He worked as a riveter for Boeing to help pay his way through UW School of Law, where he graduated in 1958.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2018

The track’s inspiration — Rosalind P. Walter, a riveter on fighter planes — is widely accepted, as is the model for a Rosie the Riveter illustration by Norman Rockwell.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2018

She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady