Collection Title: Jackson Purchase Oral History Project – World War II
Series Number: OH180
Interviewee: Howard, Anna Grace
Interviewer: Judy Graves
Date interviewed: March 18, 1996
Processed by: Processed by Benjamin J. Drake in September 2012.
Date processed: September 19, 2012
Description: 1 sound disc (39 minutes
Abstract: Anna Grace Howard discusses her career at the Ken-Rad Tube Manufacturing Corporation during the 1940s. She describes experiences working in a vacuum tube manufacturing plant during the Second World War. She also mentions the influence of labor unions and the changes that occurred when Ken-Rad was acquired by the General Electric Company in 1952.
Biographical / Historical note: Anna Grace Howard worked periodically for the Ken-Rad Tube Manufacturing Corporation and the General Electric Company in Owensboro, Kentucky during the 1940s and 1950s. She was one of thirteen children. She worked at Ken-Rad at the age of sixteen in 1941.
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Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Howard, Anna Grace, 1925–
Ken-Rad Tube Manufacturing Corporation (Owensboro, Ky.)
Owensboro (Ky.) – Business, industries, and trades – Vacuum-tubes.
Owensboro (Ky.) – History.
Labor unions – Kentucky – Owensboro.
