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Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

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Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1942

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Rittase, William M., 1894-1968, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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connecticut

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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