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A man is working on a piece of wood. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A man is working on a piece of wood, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man with a large stick. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine, Burley, Idaho. Mechanic in garage

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. Japanese-Americans leaving camp for a visit to town

At the shop at machinist, blacksmith, wheelwright Bill Snedigar in Stevensville, Montana

A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

Man recording quantities of pea vines delivered to vinery, near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Making irrigation tile. Canyon County, Idaho. Practically all agriculture depends upon irrigation in this county

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. To increase productive capacity and meet war demands for fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation, workmen in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation are laying firebrick. This is the first step in the construction of one of the huge furnaces required for glass melting

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. To increase productive capacity and meet war demands for fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation, workmen in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation are laying firebrick. This is the first step in the construction of one of the huge furnaces required for glass-melting

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. To increase productive capacity and meet war demands for fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation, workmen in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation are laying firebrick. This is the first step in the construction of one of the huge furnaces required for glass melting

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Workmen in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation are installing the gas-firing lines on a newly-built furnace to expand manufacturing capacity for thermal and acoustical insulation needed in the battle for production

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. In the plant where fiberglass materials are manufactured, as in all other plants where demands for war production are being met, increased maintenance to prevent downtime on vital equipment. Here workmen, high over a glass furnace, are installing equipment to conserve materials

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Feeding the batch into what glass men call "the doghouse"--the charging end of a furnace--this worker is servicing one of the tanks used to manufacture fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A worker in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation is packaging bats of lightweight, inorganic, firesafe building insulation. Recent findings by the U.S. Bureau of Mines show that adequate home insulation can save over a billion dollars a year in fuel and release transportation facilities required for the war effort

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Along an overhead monorail system, cans containing the carefully compounded ingredients of the batch, move to the huge furnaces for conversion into molten glass from which fiberglass materials are manufactured in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Along an overhead monorail system, cans containing the carefully compounded ingredients of the batch, move to the huge furnaces for conversion into molten glass from which fiberglass materials are manufactured in a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. To increase productive capacity and meet war demands for fiberglass thermal and acoustical insulation, workmen in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation are laying firebrick. This is the first step in the construction of one of the huge furnaces required for glass-melting

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01/01/1942
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United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Increased business volume key to recovery. Hopkins new Executive Assistant. Washington, D.C., April 13. In his first Press Conference today, Edward J. Noble, newly appointed Assistant to Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, told newsmen that he thought the key to recovery was to increase business volume. He said that if volume could be increased to a sufficiently high level, tax rates could be lowered without disturbing the government's revenue. 4-13-39

Chief Hanson will not meet with the gay community, so we must take our demands to him -- end assaults on gays ...

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Lumber company sign. Corpus Christi, Texas. Naturally all forms of construction work are on the increase in the town

War production drive. The war production drive committee in the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company plant in Cleveland approved this pledge card. The signing of each card impressed the worker with his individual responsibility for the success of the drive. Many other plants have used similar pledges and many plants forward these signed pledges to Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), as a gesture of their commitment to increase production

Lunch hour for the workmen in a big Midwest plant where old tires are transformed

Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of Douglas Dam. Making forms of the generating plant at TVA's new Douglas Dam on the French Broad River. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet long, with a 31,600 acre reservoir area extending forty-three miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,00 acre feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kilowatts of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kilowatts in the average year

Cotton state Solons present demands for enactment of farm program to president. Washington, D.C., Aug 5. Led by Senator Ellison D. "Cotton Ed" Smith, of South Carolina, a delegation of congressmen from the cotton states called on President Roosevelt today and presented their demands for enactment of a farm program before congressional adjournment. After the conference a spokesman for the group told reporters he felt the president would make stabilization loans under existing discretionary powers, probably through the Commodity Credit Corporation, on all basic commodities if given "definite assurances" that a farm production control program would be enacted early next session. In the picture, left to right: Rep. William R. Poage, Texas; Rep. John J. Sparkman, Ala.; Senator Ellison D. Smith, S.C.; Rep. Rene L. De Rouen, LA.; Rep. Lyndon Johnson, Tex.; Rep. Aaron Lane Ford, Miss. and Rep. Clyde Garrett, Texas, 8/5/37

Dormitories being built near Childersburg to accomodate the expected increase in employment at the nearby powder plant. Childersburg, Alabama

Chicago, Illinois. Workmen studying blueprints in the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad repair shops

Production. Naval gun mounts. The chassis of a large naval gun mount nears completion as workmen of a Midwest machine shop perform final scraping and fitting operations. Westinghouse, Louisville

Gillnet Boat ALKI II, 243 East Birnie Slough Road, Puget Island, Cathlamet, Wahkiakum County, WA

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