Το 1941 η Αμέρικα Κέι και ο σύζυγός της είναι αρκετά ευτυχισμένοι μέχρι που εκείνος κατατάσσεται μετά το Περλ Χάρμπορ. Ενάντια στις επιθυμίες του, η γυναίκα του πιάνει δουλειά στο τοπικό εργοστάσιο αεροσκαφών όπου συναντάει την Χέιζελ, μια τραγουδίστρια. Γίνονται φίλες και μαζί με τις υπόλοιπες γίνονται πολύ καλές εργάτριες. Και με τον πόλεμο να συνεχίζεται, η Κέι βγαίνει ραντεβού με τον τρομπετίστα επιστάτη και η ζωή της αρχίζει να περιπλέκεται.
Donald is a riveter who has trouble with the riveting gun, heights, and the foreman, Pete. Pete chases him throughout the construction site, causing the building to collapse. Donald runs away while Pete is trapped in cement, holding a water hose in the pose of a statue.
Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making do because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.