[Hidden Figures] # Chapter 1: A Door Opens

 
 
 

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[Review previous expression]

[mine]
- My father wanted me to work with him, but I defied him and plunged full steam ahead into researching.
- I prefer riding shotgun to driving a car.
- I think there are many books background in the segregation era.
 
[chatgpt]
 

• My father wanted me to work with him, but I defied him and plunged full steam ahead into research.
• I prefer riding shotgun to driving a car.
• I think there are many books set in the segregation era.

 
[friend]
I had been assigned many tasks, but I conferred with my manager to remove one task that was not within my area of expertise.
 

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[Summarize this chapter]

오바다. 문장 구조가 너무 어색하다.. 
 전쟁 상황에서 항공산업이 발달 . 하게 된계기 1938. 루즈벨트 그래서 인력 부족 흑인 여성필요흑인 여성 수학자 1 흑인인권위해 싸운 randoph MLK. 흑인 취직 책했는데 차별 계속있었음. Nacaai받아들이게멜빈노 력 1 학교 등으로 식별. 그는 인류애적이라기본단 효율을 따졌는데 결국 progresse

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[Quotes that I liked ]

 

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[New Expression]

(p. 1) Melvin Butler, the personnel officer at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, had a problem, the scope and nature of which was made plain in a May 1943 telegram to the civil service’s chief of field operations.
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(p. 1) exclaimed the missive.
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(p. 1) his staff sprang to life, dispatching the lab’s station wagon to the local rail depot,
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(p. 1) who had made their way to the lonely finger of land on the Virginia coast.
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(p. 1) Butler’s staff whisked them through the first-day stations:
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(p. 1) Thus installed, the newly minted civil servants fanned out to take their places in one of the research facility’s expanding inventory of buildings, each already as full as
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(p. 1) a pod ripe with peas.
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(p. 2) No sooner had Sherwood Butler, the laboratory’s head of procurement, set the final brick on a new building than his brother, Melvin, set about filling it with new employees.
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(p. 2) Closets and hallways, stockrooms and workshops stood in as makeshift offices.
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(p. 2) jury-rigged
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(p. 2) In the four years since Hitler’s troops overran Poland—since American interests and the European war converged in an all-consuming conflict—the laboratory’s complement of 500-odd employees at the close of the decade was on its way to 1,500.
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(p. 2) Yet the great groaning war machine swallowed them whole and remained hungry for more.
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(p. 2) The offices of the Administration Building looked out upon the crescent-shaped airfield.
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(p. 2) disseminating
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(p. 2) The double hangar—
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(p. 3) turning their on-demand hurricanes onto the planes—
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(p. 3) The facts were clear to all belligerents: the final conquest would come from the sky.
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(p. 3) But even before the plane responded to its pilot’s knowing caress,
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(p. 4) minding each decimal point, poring over differential equations and pressure distribution charts until their eyes tired.
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(p. 5) the men themselves grudgingly admitted.
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(p. 5) the girls were harder to come by.
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(p. 5) She conscripted what seemed like entire classes of math graduates
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(p. 5) gaining supremacy of the air?
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(p. 5) the labor market was as exhausted as the war workers themselves.
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(p. 5) lucrative war jobs
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(p. 6) threatening in the summer of 1941 to bring one hundred thousand Negroes to the nation’s capital in protest if the president rebuffed his demand.
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(p. 6) fumed Joseph Rauh,
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(p. 6) concede the stage
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(p. 6) it was Randolph’s long-term vision and the specter of a march that never happened that pried open the door that had been closed like a bank vault since the end of Reconstruction.
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(p. 6) With two strokes of a pen—
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(p. 6) Roosevelt primed the pump for a new source of labor to come into the tight production process.
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(p. 6) No photo advised as to the applicant’s color—that requirement,
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(p. 7) was struck down as the Roosevelt administration tried to dismantle discrimination in hiring practices.
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(p. 7) But the applicants’ alma maters tipped their hand:
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(p. 7) their strange ways be damned.
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(p. 7) Butler proceeded with discretion:
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(p. 7) But he also proceeded with direction: nothing to herald the arrival of the Negro women to the laboratory, but nothing to derail their arrival either.
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(p. 8) The leader’s indefatigable activism, unrelenting pressure, and superior organizing skills laid the foundation for what, in the 1960s, would come to be known as the civil rights movement.
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(p. 8) Still shrouded from view were the great aeronautical advances that would crush the notion that faster-than-sound flight was a physical impossibility,
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(p. 8) seemingly endless requisition list:
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