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 * __Frankie Giovanni__**
 * ~Age: 32**
 * ~D.O.B.: August 23, 1910**
 * ~Hometown: New York, New York**
 * ~Married to Angelica Giovanni**
 * ~Ethnicity: Italian[[image:http://www.hnsa.org/ships/img/redoak3.jpg width="419" height="239" align="right" caption="http://www.hnsa.org/ships/redoak.htm" link="http://www.hnsa.org/ships/redoak.htm"]]**
 * ~Occupation: Radio Reporter**

“Hello, I’m Frankie Giovanni and I have some very interesting new to tell all of my listeners today. I’m in Richmond, California at Henry J. Kaiser’s shipyard (Danzer et al. 565). Kaiser here is, a born New Yorker like myself, is a huge industrialist ("Henry"). He has me here to watch his workers diligently finish assembling //Hull 440//, a liberty ship, in four days and it's day number four. That’s a record! Mr. Kaiser here just told me that he has just finished building his seventh massive new shipyard. These shipyards are sending out Liberty ships (for all of you who don’t know what those are, they are cargo carriers), tankers, troop transports, and ‘baby’ aircraft carriers. Shipyards and defense plants are expanding at incredible speeds (Danzer et al. 565).

“Now back to some more pressing matters. I know many of you must be wondering where all the cars are going, where all the mechanical pencils are going, the bedspreads, and the soft-drinks. The truth is all of these factories are being retooled for war production factories (Danzer et al. 565). Automobile factories are being retooled for the making of tanks, planes, boats, and command cars (Danzer et al. 564). A bomb parts plant was created out of a mechanical pencil factory. A manufacturer of bedspreads was taken over by mosquito netting. A company that produced soft-drinks has been converted from filling bottles with that yummy liquid we all like to drink to filling shells with explosives (Danzer et al. 565). That’s a real bummer because soft-drinks beat explosives out any day. The good news here is that there are some more job opportunities opening up. Industries need more workers in order to spit out military machine fast, and not to mention we’re in need of soldiers in the war. The bad news, well, let’s put it this way, our friends and family are flying and sailing off to different countries and may not even return, and parts of our everyday life are slowly disappearing because of the military takeover of our industries ("Industrial"). But hey, don’t get too down in the dumps. The sooner we win this war, the sooner it’s over. Am I right or am I right? So keep a smile on your face, go on with your everyday life as normal as possible, and always remember to tune in and listen to me in the evenings. This is Frankie G. for the evening news and I’m out of here.”

__Works Cited__ Danzer, Gerald A. et al. __The Americans.__ Evanston, Illinois: McDougal Littell Inc., 2003.

"Henry J. Kaiser." __NNDB: Tracking__ __the Entire World.__ 2007. 23 October 2007. .

"Industrial Production During World War II." __Electronic New Jersey.__ 2004. 23 October 2007. <[|http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/wwII/production/>.]

"SS Red Oak Victory." __Historic Naval Ships Association.__ 1997-2007. 23 October 2007. .