CHAPTER 2: A DOOR OPENS
• What are some reasons for wanting more mathematicians at Langley in the early 1940s?

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Explain what President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed would be the result of increasing the production of airplanes from 3,000 planes to 50,000 plans in 1941. 

• In what ways was the personnel officer at Langley, progressive in the hiring practices? Progressive means to be thinking toward the future. Progressive hiring would be happening or developing gradually or in stages; proceeding step by step. In what ways was the hiring practices restricted by convention - customs of the time period?  Think about how Dorothy got her job in this time period of racial discrimination and segregation. Do you think the company did the best it could under the circumstances of the time period?

• Who is A. Philip Randolph and how does he help building the work force at Langley?