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In this April 15, 2014, image from video, Loraine Osborne, a former “Rosie the Riveter” who worked at the Willow Run bomber plant, holds up her old Ford Motor Co. identification card at the plant in Ypsilanti Township, Mich. A group wants to preserve a portion of the plant and house a museum there dedicated to aviation and the countless Rosies across the country. Save the Bomber Plant officials have until Thursday, May 1, to raise the remainder of the $8 million needed to save the plant from demolition. (AP Photo, Mike Householder)

Time is running short to save Rosie’s plant

Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file image is &quot;Rosie the Riveter&quot; dressed in overalls and bandanna, who was introduced as a symbol of patriotic women joining the work force during World War II. The Ypsilanti, Mich., factory where the real Rosie worked helping build World War II-era bombers is scheduled to be knocked down. A group trying to save the factory from demolition announced Friday, March 28, 2014, it has raised $6.5 million, but it needs $8 million and has until May 1 to make that happen. (AP Photo/File)

$1.5M needed by May 1 to save Detroit’s Rosie the Riveter plant

By Mike Householder - Associated Press