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Production. Magnesium. A helmeted welder is busily engaged in his part of the war effort at Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. The plant is turning out great quantities of magnesium for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

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Production. Magnesium. A helmeted welder is busily engaged in his part of the war effort at Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. The plant is turning out great quantities of magnesium for aircraft and tracer bullet manufacturers

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Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1943

person

Contributors

Henle, Fritz, 1909-1993, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

place

Location

clark county

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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