Feiner wins individual production merit certificate. Samuel Meyer Feiner (left), Certificate of Individual Production Merit winner from San Francisco, California, explains his prize-winning suggestion to William E. Warne, acting chief of the War Production Drive Headquarters, in Washington. Feiner, 50-year old American citizen of Polish birth, devised an elbow-edging machine which tripled the production of elbows at the Bethlehem Steel Company's shipbuilding division. It saves over 1,000 man hours monthly. Feiner was one of the 22 men throughout the nation who received certificates in the September judging by theh Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive Headquarters