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WHAT HAS ROSIE THE RIVETER TO DO WITH Fresh Strawberries for Thanksgiving?

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Color print magazine advertisement for Monsanto Chemical Company's product Santocel, a silica aerogel used in insulation. The advertisement depicts Rosie the Riveter wearing a red hat, yellow gloves, and brown uniform at work and suggests that Santocel Deepfreeze units are useful in both riveting work and in household refrigerators, for when Rosie transitions to "Rosie the Housewife."

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“WHAT HAS ROSIE THE RIVETER TO DO WITH Fresh Strawberries for Thanksgiving?,” 1943. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bk128b060.

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