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At the time I started with the firm, there were only 450 employees on
the payroll, After I had been doing this First Aid work for about three
months, the company prepared to really start on a terrific expansion pro-
grem that was aimed at ending up with a vayroll of around 5000 pedple,

During my working hours, the Employment Manager and the Director of
the Department hed been 'shoving' more and more of the Industrial Relations
work aside for me to do .t night, that the reguler staff could not get a-
round to in the deytime.

When it became evident that we were in for some really wholesale hir-
ing and would need to maintein a hiring office in downtown Los Angeles, the
Employment Manager asked me if I would be interested in becoming an Inter-
viewer, Naturally I said "yes", So the middle of April, I resigned from
the University (I hed been maintaining my day teaching duties there, while
I worked the Swing shift at the plant -- 19 hours of work out of the 24!)

end moved into a downtown Central hiring o*fice that we set un,

After handling this for about a month, I was placed in charge of all
personnel procurement for the compeny, at all plants, I heave been doing
this since, We have expanded to, at the present time, a total of 3500
employees, and are hunting for more, Our main producticn 'dream' is a
sweet little aeroplane of the trainer type, It is a léw-wing, open cock-
pit job and constructéd out of what is Called plastic, but is in reality
a 'plastic-bonded, molded-plywood construction', to give it the accepted
name, It is made by a special process where ordinary sheets of veneer
wood are joined with this plastic compound and when the treatment is Com-
pleted, the 'wood' is now of a synthetic, plastic characteristic,

Another product that we heve just finished a contract on, is the huge
Cargo- and transport-carrying invasion gliders, Then the rest of our work
is Concerned with sub-contract construction and fabrication of various shect
metal parts for other companies (Lockheed-Vega, Consolidated-Vultee, and
Dougles), .

You know, it is certainly funny how things move around, In December
of 1941 I had mt even the remotest idea of getting into Personnel work,
end if I had of, I certdnly would not of known where or how to start. But
by January of 1942 I was started, and now I'm in it so deep I doubt if I
ever want to leave it, And all by a hapoy chance that I knew a little a-
bout aonlying a bandage -- lucky me!! :