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Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

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Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

New York, New York. Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. All incoming dispatches are mimeographed, then passed through slot into news room for copy reading and editing. They have to be mimeographed so fast to meet the deadline that many copies fly out of the machine onto the littered floor

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Working on contracts to determine pay for miners. The contract system is used in the Butte mines, where the minimum basic wage is six dollars and seventy-five cents daily

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Working on contracts to determine pay for miners. The contract system is used in the Butte mines, where the minimum basic wage is six dollars and seventy-five cents daily

First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

First printing of food stamps. Washington, D.C., April 20. Food stamps, the latest in the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, came off the presses today at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Of yellow and blue, the stamps will be issued to persons on relief who will be able to cash each one dollar stamp for food worth a dollar and fifty cents. Imogene Stanhope, printer's assistant at the Bureau, is pictured pulling the first batch off the press

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

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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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Louisville-Jefferson County, 38.20924, -85.70385

Google Map of 38.209237, -85.7038502

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