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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Another scene in the runoff line where three-inch shells are being run through a centerless grinding machine which grinds them to exactly correct roundness, size, straightness and smoothness. Designed to be blown to bits as soon as possible, each shell must nevertheless be made and finished as carefully as if it were to last as long as the piston of an automobile engine

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Another scene in the runoff line where three-inch shells are being run through a centerless grinding machine which grinds them to exactly correct roundness, size, straightness and smoothness. Designed to be blown to bits as soon as possible, each shell must nevertheless be made and finished as carefully as if it were to last as long as the piston of an automobile engine

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 31, frame 273.

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01/01/1942
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mid west
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