While writing my novel A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (Alternative Book Press, 2018 in press), I discovered that Henry Ford employed midgets to work in the Willow Run (Michigan) B-24 Bomber Plant during the Second World War because they were small enough to crawl inside the wings and buck rivets from the inside. Midgets were paid less than full-size men but more than Rosie the Riveter. Read more about the book in NOVELS and about a “special doorknob” in BEHIND THE STORY.
