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Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Rivet holes for the armor plates of military tanks are run on a vertical drill press in an Eastern mill

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Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Rivet holes for the armor plates of military tanks are run on a vertical drill press in an Eastern mill

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01/01/1941

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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