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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal bulldozer was used to fashion parts for merry-go-rounds to lighten the hearts of carefree children. The drill press has now been converted so that it can perform a face milling operation on landing gear cases for Airacobras. Mathew Kipa, expert machinist, uses a depth micrometer to check the accuracy of his work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In times of peace, this horizontal b...

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[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little school girl coming for some other purpose.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at i...

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Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's SBD light dive bomber is the counterpart of the Army's A-24 (Dauntless) with the differences that adapt it to Navy requirements. This Douglas plane is equipped with slotted wing flaps to decrease air speed and obtain greater bombing accuracy. It is more maneuverable than the German Stuka and is capable of carrying heavier bomb loads

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's SBD light dive bomber is the counterpart o...

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Another batch coming up. Parts for dozens of small guns are checked for accuracy in an eastern arsenal. These are breach rings that will soon be fitted into cannons for the war program

Another batch coming up. Parts for dozens of small guns are checked fo...

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The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber is the Army counterpart to the Navy SBD, with certain modifications to meet Army requirements. It was designed for dive-bombing operations against ground troops and installations. It is equipped with slotted diving flaps to decrease air speed and obtain greater bombing accuracy. The Dauntless is more maneuverable than the German Stuka and is capable of carrying heavier bomb loads

The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber is the Army counterpart...

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[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little school girl coming for some other purpose.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at i...

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Adding prize winner. Washington D.C. In a speed and accuracy contest for adding machine operators last night, William A. Offutt of the Washington Loan and Trust Company, was declared winner over a field of 30 contestants. The contest was sponsored by the Washington Chapter, American Institute of Banking

Adding prize winner. Washington D.C. In a speed and accuracy contest f...

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Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. The accuracy of a milling machine operation is checked by an inspector in a machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of the North American Aviation. The casting being milled will be part of the landing gear of a P-51 fighter plane. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. The accuracy of a milling m...

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The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber, is the Army counterpart of the Navy SBD, with certain modifications to meet Army requirements. It was designed for dive-bombing operations against ground troops and installations. It is equipped with slotted diving flaps to decrease air speed and obtain greater accuracy. The Dauntless is more maneuverable than the German Stuka and is capable of carrying heavier bomb loads

The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber, is the Army counterpar...

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Liberator (B-24E) bomber. Two Liberator (B-24E) bombers on trial flights near the big Ford Willow Run Plant at which they were produced. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high accuracy bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians

Liberator (B-24E) bomber. Two Liberator (B-24E) bombers on trial fligh...

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Carl Bronner, sightless and with both hands off at the wrists is one of the most remarkable students at the American Red Cross Institute for the Blind, Everygreen, Md. Among other things, Bronner has learned how to write on the typewriter shown in the picture. By a special mechanical arrangement, which he works with his feet and his wrists, Bronner is able to turn out letters that are marvels for accuracy. He is able to attain fair speed as well as accuracy. Bronner is an excellent student and is preparing himself for the study of law

Carl Bronner, sightless and with both hands off at the wrists is one o...

Caption from negative sleeve: Hughes Co. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Red Cross Institute. Data: Public Inform... More

Fingerprint met hard on crooks. It is possible, according to E.K. Thode, chief of the National Division of Identification and Information, to reconstruct a fingerprint with positive accuracy from a verbal description received by telephone or telegraph. Mr. Thode's division works under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of the United States Department of Justice

Fingerprint met hard on crooks. It is possible, according to E.K. Thod...

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Bureau of Standards. Accuracy reading of thermometer

Bureau of Standards. Accuracy reading of thermometer

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Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's SBD light dive bomber is the counterpart of the Army's A-24 (Dauntless) with the differences that adapt it to Navy requirements. This Douglas plane is equipped with slotted wing flaps to decrease air speed and obtain greater bombing accuracy. It is more maneuverable than the German Stuka and is capable of carrying heavier bomb loads

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's SBD light dive bomber is the counterpart o...

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[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little school girl coming for some other purpose.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at i...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An expert installs the accessories for the engine of Dodge Army trucks that are specified by Army regulations. With skill and accuracy craftsman shown above attaches oil filters, air cleaners, hoops up spark plug wires and sees that all are properly coordinated and in good working order

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). An expert installs the accessories for...

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Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the Saint Louis, Missouri plant of the Airplane Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The male inspector in the rear checks the accuracy of the completed work of the women in the foreground

Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the S...

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To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster, a plant superintendent built this machine. It makes possible a speedy checking of thread accuracy in contrast to the old hand method. The inventor made the machine out of a fan base and a couple pieces of machine steel in a matter of hours. Months would have been necessary to buy such a machine on the market

To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster,...

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. Operating a multiple drill press with speed and accuracy, this young woman is taking an active and important part in the war effort. She's machining gun parts in a Midwest plant which has shifted from production of spark plugs to the manufacture of machine guns on a full-time war basis. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. Operating a multiple d...

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No second guesses. Every part of every gun turned out for national defense is inspected for accuracy. Inspector at an eastern arsenal checks the dimensions of a finished trunnion for a 16-inch gun, barbette carriage

No second guesses. Every part of every gun turned out for national def...

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And now a beer meter. Washington, D.C., May 1. To aid Uncle Same in collecting the tax on the millions of barrels of beer brewed in this country every year, the National Bureau of Standards has designed a master beer meter for use of the alcohol unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, U.S. Treasury. Government inspectors employ this master meter in checking the accuracy of the brewery beer meter to determine the volume of beer brewed. In the photograph the large tank receives the liquid [after passing] thru the meter where it is weighed to get [the] true volume. Carl F. Stoneburner is reading [...]

And now a beer meter. Washington, D.C., May 1. To aid Uncle Same in co...

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Accuracy comes first. Experienced inspectors check clip hoops for the ultimate in accuracy. The operation is part of the rush of defense orders in an eastern arsenal

Accuracy comes first. Experienced inspectors check clip hoops for the ...

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On the "assembly" line. Scores of parts go into Uncle Sam's big guns. Worker at a large eastern arsenal inspects some of the mechanism parts for medium-caliber guns. The utmost accuracy is required to ensure efficient performance

On the "assembly" line. Scores of parts go into Uncle Sam's big guns. ...

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[Matthew A. Donohue, inspector of weights and measures for the N. Y. Department of Markets holding a weight used to check scales for accuracy] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick De Marsico.

[Matthew A. Donohue, inspector of weights and measures for the N. Y. D...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little school girl coming for some other purpose. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). This craftsman is measuring the rudder bearing for a new battleship. Split hair accuracy is required in fashioning these watertight fittings

Shipbuilding (Newport News). This craftsman is measuring the rudder be...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidated transport, just off the assembly line of a Western plant, taxies away from the flight hangar toward the flight runway for a takeoff. This new warship of the air is capable of high altitudes and over great ranges for high accuracy bombing invasions. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidated trans...

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[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little school girl coming for some other purpose.] Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. / Lewis W. Hine.

[Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at i...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Maiden flight for a new consolidated transport, just off the assembly line of a Western plant. Wheels are being retracted just after the takeoff. This new warship of the air is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high accuracy bombing invasions. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Maiden flight for a new ...

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A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop tests the accuracy of his work with a micrometer

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop ...

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Conversion. Auto plant to 75- and 155-mm shell production. The work of pointing shells must be conducted with care. Shells must be perfect to insure accurate performance. But high standards of accuracy are nothing new to the former automobile plant where these shells are being made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Conversion. Auto plant to 75- and 155-mm shell production. The work of...

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Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. Checking the accuracy of extensometers in the timber mechanics department

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. Checking the accuracy ...

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Superhuman electrical accuracy. Gauging the accuracy of a 155 mm shell by an electrolimit gauge which measures all parts and each curve to the ten-thousandth of an inch. Location: a large eastern arsenal

Superhuman electrical accuracy. Gauging the accuracy of a 155 mm shell...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Making accuracy certain. Rifling grooves to speed shells on their way with accuracy are cut in a medium-caliber gun in a large eastern arsenal

Making accuracy certain. Rifling grooves to speed shells on their way ...

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Superhuman electrical accuracy. Gauging the accuracy of a 155 mm shell by an electrolimit gauge which measures all parts and each curve to the ten-thousandth of an inch. Location: a large eastern arsenal

Superhuman electrical accuracy. Gauging the accuracy of a 155 mm shell...

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Making accuracy certain. Rifling grooves to speed shells on their way with accuracy are cut in a medium-caliber gun in a large eastern arsenal

Making accuracy certain. Rifling grooves to speed shells on their way ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More

Accuracy always This blind former soldier is enabled to attain marvelous accuracy with his Braille, rule

Accuracy always This blind former soldier is enabled to attain marvelo...

Caption from negative sleeve: Hughes Co. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Red Cross Institute. Data: Pub. Infor., ... More

Vice president pulls number for secret unemployment census key. Washington, D.C., Nov. 19. Out of a Texas sombrero Vice President John. N. Garner today pulled out the Number 42--designating on a secret unemployment census key the postal routes of the country which will be sampled to determine accuracy of the nation's first count of its idle workers. John D. Bigger, Unemployment Census Director, is also shown in the picture. 11/19/37

Vice president pulls number for secret unemployment census key. Washin...

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Centering fabric on the drum. The fabric layer is slipped onto the drum, layer upon layer, by the use of a rod forced between the last layer applied and the one being applied while the wheel is spinning. This rod stretches the new fabric sufficiently to permit the loop to fit snugly in place--clear on the carcass. After the fabric is in approximate position, the tire builder checks it for accuracy by stopping the wheel, bending the overhanging edges over to see that they each overhang the same distance. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Centering fabric on the drum. The fabric layer is slipped onto the dru...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to fashion parts for merry-go-rounds to lighten the hearts of carefree children. The drill press has now been converted so that it can perform a face milling operation on landing gear cases for Airacrobras. Mathew Kipa, expert machinist, uses a depth micrometer to check the accuracy of his work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to...

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Check and triple check. Final inspection of breach rings for medium caliber guns in an eastern arsenal. Greatest accuracy marks production in the war program

Check and triple check. Final inspection of breach rings for medium ca...

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Testing for accuracy. Checking the straight-shooting qualities of one of the semi-automatic rifle which play an important role in our war preparation. Note the ejected cartridge flying through the air in the upper right hand corner of the photograph

Testing for accuracy. Checking the straight-shooting qualities of one ...

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Baltimore, MD. Strange as it may seem, many persons misspell or change the spelling of their names, from time to time. To forestall the difficulties which would ensue when Baer subsequently spelled his name Bear, the Social Security Board Records Office has set up several varieties of indexes for reference and to insure accuracy. One of these is the alphabetic code index. This is printed on flexible strips, each just wide enough for one line of type. They are printed automatically from the employee master card. The strips are in partially perforated rolls when they first are printed, as shown in the above photograph taken in the Records Office. The perforations allow strips to be separated at any point so that, for example, Abraham Abel's name may be inserted in proper alphabetic sequence between Aaron Abel and Adam Abel

Baltimore, MD. Strange as it may seem, many persons misspell or change...

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New time saving voting machine designed to U.S. Capitol employee. Washington, D.C., May 10. Until Jurgensen, Jr., a tally clerk in the House of Representatives designed this electric voting machine it took at least three months, using the old rubber stamp system, to compile the voting records of the 435 members of the House. Recording the yeas and nays, absent and present, paired for and paired against votes of each individual member, the machine which is similar to an adding machine, does the same job in less than two weeks. Greater accuracy is assured in counting votes with Jurgensen-designed machine, 5-10/38

New time saving voting machine designed to U.S. Capitol employee. Wash...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A casting is machined for the traversing assembly of a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage. The traversing assembly must be precision-made so that the gunner may follow his swiftly moving target with accuracy. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A casting is machined for the traversing as...

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The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber, is the Army counterpart of the Navy SBD, with certain modifications to meet Army requirements. It was designed for dive-bombing operations against ground troops and installations. It is equipped with slotted diving flaps to decrease air speed and obtain greater accuracy. The Dauntless is more maneuverable than the German Stuka and is capable of carrying heavier bomb loads

The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber, is the Army counterpar...

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Training high school boys to identify planes. Student's test model planes for accuracy of specification, in a basic aviation course given at Weequahic High School, Newark, New Jersey

Training high school boys to identify planes. Student's test model pla...

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Baltimore, MD. In handling millions of records two things are of great importance: accuracy and speed. Social Security Account numbers are divided according to the area in which the account number was issued, the group within the area, and the serial, or individual number. There are 9,999 individual or serial numbers in each group, and 100 groups in each area. To eliminate chance of human error, and to speed up the work, the area number and the group number of each account is punched on the employee master card by a "gang punch" machine. Only those serial numbers belonging to the same area and group are put into the gang punch machine at one time. Thus the machine need be set only once to punch the correct area and group number on hundreds of cards faster and more accurately than a human being could. The photograph above shows master card being punched with holes representing area and group numbers in the gang punch machine

Baltimore, MD. In handling millions of records two things are of great...

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To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster, a plant superintendant built this machine. It makes possible a speedy checking of thread accuracy in contract to the old hand method. The inventor made the machine out of fan base and a couple pieces of machine steel in a matter of hours. Months would have been necessary to buy such a machine of that kind on the market

To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster,...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This is a milling operation. The four-pound metal piece with the aperture is actually the turret for a 37 mm anti-aircraft gun, part of the equipment for an M-3 tank. Extreme accuracy is required in the milling of these parts, because it is important that they be able to move freely. The gun is designed for straight away shooting, as well as serial shooting. The twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks are made in Detroit, at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. This is a milling operation. The four-pound met...

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Forty-two keys to victory. An old typing exercise assumes new importance as thousands of soldiers in camps all over the nation acquire mastery of those forty-two keys. The business of keeping the records of the armed forces must run smoothly and one typewriter can mean more than a couple of hundred pages of scrawl in time and accuracy to the Army

Forty-two keys to victory. An old typing exercise assumes new importan...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A wing center section for a B-24 bomber in a bomb bay mating jig at a Western aircraft plant. At this same plant is also built the new consolidated transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 and is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high accuracy bombing missions. It proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A wing center section fo...

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The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber is the Army counterpart to the Navy SBD, with certain modifications to meet Army requirements. It was designed for dive-bombing operations against ground troops and installations. It is equipped with slotted diving flaps to decrease air speed and obtain greater bombing accuracy. The Dauntless is more maneuverable than the German Stuka and is capable of carrying heavier bomb loads

The Douglas A-24 (Dauntless) light dive bomber is the Army counterpart...

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Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about 3 months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little school girl coming for some other purpose. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Rhea Quintin - 14 years old. Hand drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bureau. Unit supervisor checking data with the plotter of accuracy

Washington, D.C. Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bu...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian technician makes a final check on a clinometer, a field fire control instrument of great accuracy, at the world's oldest precision instrument factory "somewhere in India." Almost every step in the manufacture of this instrument is facilitated by lend-lease

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian technic...

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