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On the mill rollers. First the raw rubber is wedged into the revolving steel drums and mashed into a flat sheet which clings to one of the rollers like clothes sometimes stick to a clothes-wringer. Powders and liquids tossed into the center of this surging mass soon become a part of it. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1941

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Contributors

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Location

Akron (Ohio), 41.08139, -81.51889

Google Map of 41.081388888888895, -81.51888888888888

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Library of Congress

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