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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Smiling with pleasure, a coal miner reads the paycheck enclosure which explains the importance to the war effort of all-out production. He extracts anthracite, or hard coal, from an Eastern Pennsylvania mine

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Smiling with pleasure, a coal miner reads the paycheck enclosure which explains the importance to the war effort of all-out production. He extracts anthracite, or hard coal, from an Eastern Pennsylvania mine

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01/01/1942

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Perlitch, William, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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