During WWII, Henry Ford hired little people (then called “midgets”) to build B-24 bombers on the assembly line at his plants in Ypsilanti, Michigan and Tulsa, Oklahoma. They were recruited from circus sideshows and the entertainment industry, and had the advantage of being small enough to crawl into the wings and buck rivets from inside. Each B-24 required 313,237 rivets so there was plenty of work for them to do. Read more about WWII and little people in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS).
