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![Machine signs 7,000 social security checks per hour with no writer's cramp. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. John W. Thomas is shown here feeding social security checks into a check signing device which reels off some 7,000 checks per hour. The checks are being made at the Treasury Department's Disbursing Division, and will be [...] out starting next Jan. 1 to recipients of social security payments](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvbWFjaGluZS1zaWducy03MDAwLXNvY2lhbC1zZWN1cml0eS1jaGVja3MtcGVyLWhvdXItd2l0aC1uby13cml0ZXJzLWNyYW1wLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/50/webp "Machine signs 7,000 social security checks per hour with no writer's cramp. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. John W. Thomas is shown here feeding social security checks into a check signing device which reels off some 7,000 checks per hour. The checks are being made at the Treasury Department's Disbursing Division, and will be [...] out starting next Jan. 1 to recipients of social security payments")
Treasury prepares to release flood of Social Security checks. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. January 1 will see the Treasury's Division of Disbursement taking upon the additional duty of issuing thousands of checks each month to social security beneficiaries. They are now making 2,000 addressograph plates a day for the checks shown running off here, and expect to have about a million plates in file by the end of 1940. Ralph Baughman is shown here removing a few hundred checks from the business end of a check writing machine
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Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
1940 - 1949
Contributors
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication.
