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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. When a full ladle comes along, there must be enough molds ready to take the whole load. Nowhere is Time so stern a master as it is in the foundry. Iron must be poured when it's right -- or thrown out, cooled, and returned to the cupola. Location: a large Midwest tool plant

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01/01/1942

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Mid Calder, 55.89261, -3.48002

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