Selected Shorts: Strong Men, Stronger Women
This Selected Shorts program features two stories about remarkable couples, each featuring a pretty impressive male in an encounter with an even more impressive female counterpart.
Selected Shorts
Airs Saturdays at 10PM on 93.9 FM and Sundays at 1PM on AM 820
Sunday, August 29, 2010
A real-life "Rosie the Riveter" operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, Tennessee, working on an A-31 Vengeance dive bomber.
(Alfred T. Palmer, U.S. Office of War Information/Wikipedia Commons)
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