Every day weak spots had been mended, curves straightened out, narrow places made wider.
"Let's speed up today," she finally said, "and see what we can do." At the end of that day the reports showed that all the departments had made an improvement until the bearings reached the final assembling room and there the traffic had become congested.

For the rest of the week the assembly room was kept under scrutiny, new methods were tried, more women were set to work.
"Let's speed up again today," said Mary one morning, "and see if we can make it this time--" And finally came the day when they _did_ make it! For four consecutive days their output equalled the best ever done by the factory, and then just as every woman was beginning to thrill with that jubilation which only comes of a hard task well done, a weak spot developed in the hardening department.
Oh, how everybody frowned and clicked their tongues! You might have thought that all the cakes in the world had suddenly burned in the ovens--that every clothes line in America had broken on a muddy washday! "Never mind," said Mary.

"We're nearly there.

One more good try, and over the top we'll go...." One more good try, and they _did_ go over the top.

For two days, three days, four days, five days, a whole week, they equalled the best man-made records.