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How ironic it is that while medical advances enable the elderly to live long and longer lives, the position of the aged worsens ...

How ironic it is that while medical advances enable the elderly to liv...

"Advocacy: in support of Minority Aged Project." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lowered into place on an M-4 tank. Machine guns have already been installed and the General Sherman will be ready for the test track. Designed by the Army Ordnance Department and built under ordnance supervision, the M-4 embodies new advances in design based on battlefront experience. Cast steel construction of the hull expedites production

Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lower...

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Troops in Australia. Under cover of tall grass, Australian troops crouch behind an American light tank in fighting at Buna. This picture, taken during actual warfare, shows infantrymen following up the tank as it advances to clear out Japanese pillboxes on the edge of Semini Creek

Troops in Australia. Under cover of tall grass, Australian troops crou...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances of the century in shipbuilding, saving time, steel and weight. This welder is working on the inside of a fuel tank in a ship of Uncle Sam's new "Liberty Fleet." All parts are prefabricated in this huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and his USA airplane, the P-40 or "steam-chicken" as the bushmen call it. Civilization advances into the inner sanctums of the medicine men, and penetrates the Dark Continent, which for hundreds of years held to tribal masks passed down from generation to generation. Supplanting it with the stronger ju-ju of the white man, the medicine men construct these planes, complete with antenna and the U.S. star, and descend on the tribe in flying echelon, as the evil spirits of the Nazis are driven out of the black man's territory

Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and ...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam's "Liberty fleet," under construction at a large Eastern shipyard.All parts are prefabricated in thus huge Eastern plant which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the past two decades has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital sections of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This is one of hundreds of welders employed at Newport News, working on the man-hole coaning for a new cruiser

Shipbuilding (Newport News). One of the major advances in shipbuilding...

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Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Pruss...

two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the last few years has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital parts of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This welder, working on the nose section of a new destroyer, is one of hundreds working on vessels under construction at Norfolk

Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). One of the major advances in shipbui...

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Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Pruss...

two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

Join the Navy; America's new prestige in world affairs will mean a greater Navy. Be a part of it. America advances / Herbert Paus.

Join the Navy; America's new prestige in world affairs will mean a gre...

Sailor carrying U.S. flag. Promotional goal: U.S. J26. 1919(?). Public domain reproduction of World War One propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Pruss...

two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

Thomas Jefferson to Andre Limozin, September 22, 1787, two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances

Thomas Jefferson to Andre Limozin, September 22, 1787, two same date; ...

two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances

Young girls working in Seaconnet Mill. The boys and men had just been hauling the girls around and pawing them over in "rough house" as these noon hours sometimes are. Some of the girls make advances to strangers. A very young girl (surely under 14) was helping her mother but refused to pose. Seaconnet Mill.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Young girls working in Seaconnet Mill. The boys and men had just been ...

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Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important advances in shipbuilding during the present century with the torch resulting in immense savings in time, material and weight in the building of ships. This welder is joining side plates to angle frames forming section of the propeller shaft tunnels on a new member of Uncle Sam's Liberty ships, under construction at a large Eastern shipyard which formerly turned out freight cars. The completed sections are then carried six miles to the ways on flat cars. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Welding is one of the most important ad...

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Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, September 22, 1787, two same date; Pruss...

two same date; Prussian and Russian Military Advances; with Copy

How ironic it is that while medical advances enable the elderly to live long and longer lives, the position of the aged worsens ...

How ironic it is that while medical advances enable the elderly to liv...

"Advocacy: in support of Minority Aged Project." Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.