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War production drive poster. The labor-management committee at Wallace Silversmiths in Wallingford, Connecticut staged a public hanging of three effigies that looked like Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito but were named Lost Time, Inefficiency, and Accidents. The invitations were arranged so that when opened, three cut-out figures rose to the top of the gallows. The rally was instrumental in recruiting several hundred skilled men for war production

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War production drive poster. The labor-management committee at Wallace Silversmiths in Wallingford, Connecticut staged a public hanging of three effigies that looked like Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito but were named Lost Time, Inefficiency, and Accidents. The invitations were arranged so that when opened, three cut-out figures rose to the top of the gallows. The rally was instrumental in recruiting several hundred skilled men for war production

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Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 42, frame 47.

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01/01/1940
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connecticut
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