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Fire prevention program gets Hartford Chamber of Commerce plaque. Washington, D.C., May 1. L.G. Purmont, President, Federation of Mutual Fire Insurance Companies from Van Wert, Ohio, presenting a plaque to two representatives of the Hartford, Conn. Fire Department for that city's success in the Chamber of Commerce's 1938 Fire Waste Contest. Left to right: Purmont, Dennis E. Finn and Michael T. Keene. The presentation was made at the opening meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention here today

Fire prevention program gets Hartford Chamber of Commerce plaque. Wash...

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Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the Judge think[s] he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre,' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas.

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

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Before Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Washington, D.C., April 15. Testifying before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today, George S. Ward, Secretary of the Harlan County, Ky., Coal Operators Association, said his organiziation had doubled its assessment on member coal companies three times in the past four years during periods of union mine organization drives. The annual income for the organization from company members is between $60,000 and $70,000 and is derived from an ordinary assessment of 1/2 cent per ton levied on coal produced, 4/15/1937

Before Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Washington, D.C., April 15. T...

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Discuss transportation difficulties. Washington, D.C., Sept. 14. Representatives of [...] types of transportation companies- railroad, airline, bus, steamship- attended a special meeting today at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to formulate a national transportation policy for presentation to the next congress. Banking and insurance interests were also represented. Here we see J.J. Pelley, (left) President of the Association of American Railroads, and [...]W. Baldwin, Chief Executive officer of the Missouri Pacific, as they discussed the present [...ght] of the railroads, 9/14/38

Discuss transportation difficulties. Washington, D.C., Sept. 14. Repre...

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First witness as Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. First witness before the Monopoly Committee today as it opened a study of $4,000,000,000 steel industry was Elton Hoyt, 11, Manager of the Picklands, Mather, and Co., Cleveland, Ohio, who described his company's operations as manager for ore mining and shipping companies in the Lake Superior District. Hoyt told the committee his company had assets of $28,000,000 and managed 21 mines in the area

First witness as Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Wa...

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1... More

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 16. Charles D. Hilles, Director of the New York Life Insurance Company, and also Resident Agent for the Employer Liability Assurance Corp., today explained to the Monopoly Committee investigating insurance setups the relations between the two companies. When questioned Hilles admitted that business had increased materially for the Assurance Corp., since he became a member of the New York Life board. He told the committee that nearly 5000 pieces of New York Life property are covered by the assurance company, 2-16-39

Before Monopoly Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 16. Charles D. Hille...

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West wheat country in a region where yields are over twenty five bushels to the acre. Banks, mortgage companies, and insurance companies own many farms in this area. Umatilla County, Oregon

West wheat country in a region where yields are over twenty five bushe...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveries of laundry, ice and grocery items from local businesses that serve the defense trailer camp twice daily. Mrs. Rogan's husband is employed by the General Electric Company as a drill press operator or defense work. Although grocery stores and milk companies deliver to the doors of the trailer town, agents, salesmen and canvassers are forbidden in the settlement. This is to see that the defense workers on the night shift may sleep during the morning or early afternoon

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mrs. B.J. Rogan receives deliveri...

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Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. In the clinic at the camp which now houses Japanese-American farm workers. Medical care is provided by the sugar beet companies

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) counselor; Philip Murray, CIO president; and Harold Ruttenberg (speaking), research director, United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, setting a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Ind...

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Chicago, Illinois. Teletype machines connect the reservation bureau of the Union Station with the companies' offices in various parts of the country

Chicago, Illinois. Teletype machines connect the reservation bureau of...

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Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Shipping and transportation; Railroad companies and shipping lines, A-Y

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixteen year old boy has been newsboy and messenger for drug stores and telegraph companies. He was recently brought before the Judge of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility at home. Is now out on parole, and was working again for drug company when he got a job carrying grips in the Union Depot. He is on the job from 6:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. (seventeen hours a day) for seven days in the week. His mother and the judge think he uses cocaine, and yet they let him put in these long hours every day. He told me "There ain't a house in 'The Acre' (Red Light) that I ain't been in. At the drug store, all my deliveries were down there." Says he makes from $15.00 to $18.00 a week. Eugene Dalton. Location: Fort Worth, Texas.

Some results of messenger and newsboy work. For nine years this sixtee...

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In spotlight before Congressional Tax Committee. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. Appearing before the [Congressional] Joint Tax Committee today, Holt S. McKinney, representing the Reinsurance Corp. CF America, asked that [flood?] insurance companies be exempt from the definition of personal holding companies, 8/18/37

In spotlight before Congressional Tax Committee. Washington, D.C., Aug...

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Athens, Ohio. H.D. Palmer, executive director of the civilian defense council, addressing a meeting of the utilities division, including representatives of power, gas, electric, telephone companies

Athens, Ohio. H.D. Palmer, executive director of the civilian defense ...

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Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American women through stores, pattern companies, and radio show how to assemble a pattern as Cynthia is doing. As they did in the last war, thousands of women are asking for sewing instructions. Streamlined methods make sewing quick and easy. To save fabric and time, size corrections are quickly made on paper before the goods is cut

Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American w...

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America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. A geology expert of one of the large oil companies U.S. displays two varieties of sand from an oil drilling district. The hand on the left holds dry, oil-less sand, while the one on the right holds sand rich and dark with oil. The latter oil-soaked sand, called "Simpson sand," is the goal of all seekers of oil and finding the sand in a test-boring indicates that is a well is sunk at that place the chances of "striking" oil are good. No longer do oilwell drillers in the U.S. rely on "hit or miss" methods of drilling for oil. Geologists make careful surveys of the surface of the ground to detect those geological characteristics which indicate the presence of oil deposits beneath. The industry's high efficiency has resulted in the production of enormous quantities of oil, a great part of which today propels and lubricates the planes, navies, and mechanized equipment of the United Nations' armed forces

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

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Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for

Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...

Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers of companies, F and K, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Artillery at Fort Stevens

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers of companies, F and K, 3d R...

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Burmese women only are allowed to hunt for rubies that may escape from the companies washing pans into the mud outisde the wire line, Mogok

Burmese women only are allowed to hunt for rubies that may escape from...

Photograph shows view of ruby mine with structure in the background and women, in the foreground, searching in pools and ditches for rubies that have spilled out of the washing pans. In album: p. 63, no. 73.

High finances. Washington, D.C., Dec. 19. Louis H. Seagrave, (right) former head of the United founders Corp., testifying at the Sec. Investment Trust Inquiry today told how he expanded a $3,182 investment to a heavy interest in companies with assets of more than $1,000,000,000. The Sec. is studying the Equity Corporation Group, which took over the United founders Corp. Seagraves is shown with David Schenker, Cousel for the Security and Exchange Commission

High finances. Washington, D.C., Dec. 19. Louis H. Seagrave, (right) f...

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Companies A and G of 5th California National Guards drilling in streets of Oakland, Calif., for service in San Francisco

Companies A and G of 5th California National Guards drilling in street...

At time of earthquake and fire. H77104 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index (2); Natl. Guard... More

Old resident of Winton, Minnesota. He was formerly active in the lumbering companies

Old resident of Winton, Minnesota. He was formerly active in the lumbe...

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Loan companies on lower Douglas Street. Omaha, Nebraska

Loan companies on lower Douglas Street. Omaha, Nebraska

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Large lead companies and local business men own most of the tiff diggings. Washington County, Missouri

Large lead companies and local business men own most of the tiff diggi...

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Western wheat country in a region which yields over twenty five bushels to the acre. Banks, mortgage companies and insurance companies own many farms in this area. Umatilla County, Oregon

Western wheat country in a region which yields over twenty five bushel...

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Home on the edge of the city dump. Dubuque, Iowa. This is one of the group homes occupied by single men who gain their livelihood by scouring the dump each day for scrap iron, paper boxes, which they bale and sell, and even food, grapefruit, oranges, etc., dumped by produce companies

Home on the edge of the city dump. Dubuque, Iowa. This is one of the g...

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Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical analysis, to match the rapidity with which the nation arms itself, is possible through use of the spectrograph, a marvelous new machine used for study of materials through measurements of the arc of light they emit when heated. The aluminum and magnesium industries, steel companies and foundries use it for quick study of metals. Mines use it for exploration. The spectrograph will yield an analysis of seven elements in fifteen minutes determination, which would require up to four hours by old chemical methods. Three students in defense training courses at a famous mining-engineering school listen as an instructor shows them how the machine operates. Golden, Colorado

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical anal...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying defense plants. It's the new, oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premiere on April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons and was designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inhabited by Japanese-Americans who volunteered to do farm work. The U.S. Employment Service and the local sugar beet companies made agreements as to wages, working conditions, transportation, recreational facilities and medical care

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inha...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Sugar beet companies furnish transportation to town for Japanese-American farm workers

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Sugar b...

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Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for

Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...

Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.

[District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and crew of 100-pdr. Parrott gun on iron barbette carriage at Fort Totten]

[District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

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Camp of companies C & D, 1st Massachusetts. Cavalry

Camp of companies C & D, 1st Massachusetts. Cavalry

No. 824. Alternate title and photographer from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. P... More

Senate Committee approves SEC head's proposal. Washington, D.C., March 30. A proposal by William O. Douglas, right, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to exempt transfers of securities and properties by holding companies liquidating under the 'death sentence' clause of the Public Utility Holding Company Act from the capital gains tax, was approved today by the Senate Finance Committee. Douglas is pictured with Sen. Tom Connally as he arrived at the Capitol to appear before the committee

Senate Committee approves SEC head's proposal. Washington, D.C., March...

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Old resident of Winton, Minnesota. He used to be in the lumbering companies

Old resident of Winton, Minnesota. He used to be in the lumbering comp...

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Members of Civil Aeronautics Authority inspect latest aid to airplane pilots. Washington, D.C., Oct. 10. An instrument which gives airplane pilots their height above the ground over which the plane is flying was demonstrated today to members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority by officials of the Western Electric Co. and the United Airlines. Claimed to be the first successful altimeter showing terrain clearance, the new device operates by radio, using the shortest wave ever employed for aviation, officials of the companies stated. In the photograph, left to right: Col. Sumter Smith, Peter C. Sandrette, Supt. of the United Airline's communication laboratory who was in charge of the demonstration; and Thomas Hardin. Smith and Hardin are members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, 10/10/38

Members of Civil Aeronautics Authority inspect latest aid to airplane ...

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Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Volunteer fire companies compete for one hundred dollars to the company which can throw water farthest with hand-operated pumps

Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Volunteer fire companies com...

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Camps of companies C & D. 1st Massachusetts. Cavalry, in front of Petersburg, Virginia Aug. 1864

Camps of companies C & D. 1st Massachusetts. Cavalry, in front of Pete...

Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 4, page 197". Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

At utility hearing [...] This scene shows a number of witnesses being sworn in at the Senate lobby hearing Monday. Left to right: O.E. Wasser, Controller of A.G.& F.; H.A. Stix, Utility and Financial Accountant of N.Y.; Frank Martin, J.H. Shinn, Pres. of one one of the Utility companies, J.E. Rice Jr., A.G.& F. Treas.; F.S. Burroughs, utility atty; and Warren Partridge, utility witness, 7/29/35

At utility hearing [...] This scene shows a number of witnesses being ...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Ordinarily electricity is not supplied to the tents of migrant families living in the FSA camps. These Japanese-Americans, who were accustomed to better living conditions, wanted the electricity and the sugar beet companies and the town of Nyssa arranged for the wiring. Some of the wiring is the Christmas tree light wiring from Nyssa

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Ordinar...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Repairing the motor of a PCC trolley. Most recent trolley model designed in 1936 by a group of manufacturers and transit companies in an effort to standardize, simplify, and bring down the price; at the damage shop, maintenance terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Repairing the motor of a PCC trolley. Most recent...

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[Two firemen holding the standards of their companies]

[Two firemen holding the standards of their companies]

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Modern reproduction. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Testifying today before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, C. Nelson Sparks, Akron, O., former Mayor and Chairman of a Law and Order League during the 1936 rubber strike, declared that 60 percent of the town's population is now living on government or state relief checks since rubber companies decentralized their operations after a wave of strikes

60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told...

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Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 - American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia / / W.B. King ; Conwell Graphic Companies, N.Y.

Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 - American Committee for Rel...

Poster showing a woman carrying a baby on her back among destroyed buildings.

A natural protective watershed has been destroyed by unscrupulous logging companies. Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon

A natural protective watershed has been destroyed by unscrupulous logg...

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Aircraft. Army. The Douglas C-54 is the military version of the commercial transport DC-4 used by the airline companies. It is a four-engine low-wing monoplane designed for a long-range personnel transport. The commercial model was designed for forty day passengers and twenty-eight sleeper passengers. Its passenger carrying capacity after modifications for military service is not revealed

Aircraft. Army. The Douglas C-54 is the military version of the commer...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven seats(twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus trailer, built almost entirely of non-critical material and designed by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies. Containing eighty-seven fixed seats (twenty-four drop seats will be installed later), the trailer has a seating capacity nearly three times that of an ordinary city bus and twice that of the largest type of street car. It's one solution to the problem of transporting defense workers from cities to outlying industrial plants

New oversize trailer for war workers. Interior of the new oversize bus...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inhabited by Japanese-Americans who volunteered to do farm work. The U.S. Employment Service and the local sugar beet companies made agreements as to wages, working conditions, transportation, recreational facilities and medical care

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inha...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sugar beet companies who sponsored the Japanese-Americans who moved to the camp send trucks one night a week to take them into town for a few hours in a supervised group

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sug...

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Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-47 is the military version of the commerical transport DC-3 used by the airline companies. It is a twin-engined, low-wing monoplane capable of carrying heavy cargo. The main cabin is provided with a large loading door and a reinforced floor. It may also be arranged with folding benches to accomodate twenty-eight fully equipped fighting men

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-47 is the military versi...

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Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroads breaking all-time traffic records, they are still able to give valuable service in hauling the tank cars of the oil companies from Gulf Coast and Texas fields. But only a fraction of the required tank cars are available. Railroads are hauling 500,000 barrels daily, hope for 800,000 as more cars can be made available for movement to the East. But this still would be only half of the normal civilian requirement

Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroad...

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Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and patches from mining companies he has worked for

Pat Canterbury showing albums in which he has collected stickers and p...

Event: Interview with Pat Canterbury about labor history on Coal River.

How the Japs retain their splendid physiques - a wrestling bout between rival companies of the 2d Division between battles

How the Japs retain their splendid physiques - a wrestling bout betwee...

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Aviation companies, Love Field, Dallas, Tex.

Aviation companies, Love Field, Dallas, Tex.

Sitters wearing their hats. J231257 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Frederick W. Hellenberg; August 20, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45890.

Admits "kicking back" part of salary. Washington, D.C., April 22. He "turned back" $75 of his $200 per month salary, Henry M. Lewis former Deputy Sheriff in Harlan County, Ky., told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee as it resumed its investigation of alleged terrorism in connection with Harlan County Coal Operators' efforts to resist union organization drives. The money was returned to Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton each month in 1935 and 1936. Lewis added that many of the men listed as drawing salaries from the Sheriff's office were not regarded as regular employees, and several of them worked for coal companies, 4/22/1937

Admits "kicking back" part of salary. Washington, D.C., April 22. He "...

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Aircraft. Army. The Douglas C-54 is the military version of the commercial transport DC-4 used by the airline companies. It is a four-engine low-wing monoplane designed for a long-range personnel transport. The commercial model was designed for forty day passengers and twenty-eight sleeper passengers. Its passenger carrying capacity after modifications for military service is not revealed

Aircraft. Army. The Douglas C-54 is the military version of the commer...

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Oil. This is the huge gasoline stabilizing tower of the McKean Cracking Plant of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania. Quaker State is one of the many American oil companies working to supply the fuel and lubrication needed for the war machines of democracy

Oil. This is the huge gasoline stabilizing tower of the McKean Crackin...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sugar beet companies who sponsored the Japanese-Americans who moved to the camp send trucks one night a week to take them into town for a few hours in a supervised group

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. The sug...

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Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American women through stores, pattern companies, and radio show how to assemble a pattern as Cynthia is doing. As they did in the last war, thousands of women are asking for sewing instructions. Streamlined methods make sewing quick and easy. To save fabric and time, size corrections are quickly made on paper before the goods is cut

Simplified sewing methods now being taught to thousandes of American w...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gallant charge by two companies of the 6th Michigan on Tuesday morning on the rebel rearguard, near Falling Waters, where part of the rebel army crossed the Potomac

Gallant charge by two companies of the 6th Michigan on Tuesday morning...

Cavalry in pursuit of infantry across farm with damaged barn in background. Caption continues: "This charge was really a very brilliant and dashing affair. The cavalry numbering not more than fifty or sixty men... More

Proposed House bill would ruin small oil companies, Kentucky oil executive tells House Committee. Washington, D.C., June 23. Testifying against a proposed House bill that would divorce production, refining and marketing processes in the oil industry, Paul G. Blazer, President of the Ashland Oil and Refining Co. of Kentucky, told the House Judiciary Committee that passage of such a bill would ruin a company like his. He said his company was a small concern but was completely integrated

Proposed House bill would ruin small oil companies, Kentucky oil execu...

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The latest in cotton planting. Washington, DC, July 15. John Randolph, engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture Engineering demonstrates a model of a variable depth cotton planter which he invented. The small white dots at which he is pointing mark the wavy line of seed as planted by this new machine which makes it possible to get a strand of cotton no matter what the moisture conditions in the soil. This planter is now manufactured by several farm machinery companies and thousands are in use in the cotton belt, The essential part of the machine is a cam which causes the planting shoe to rise and fall as the planter moves forward, 7/15/38

The latest in cotton planting. Washington, DC, July 15. John Randolph,...

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Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanese-Americans cut each other's hair. Under the agreement among the Japanese, the FSA and those who sponsor the Japanese in the area (the United States Employment Service and the sugar beet companies), the Japanese can go into town once a week in a supervised group

Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp. Japanes...

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Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-54 is the military version of the commerical transport DC-4 used by the airline companies. It is a four-engined, low-wing monoplane designed for long-range personal transport. The commercial version was designed for forty day passengers and twenty-eight sleeper passengers. Its passenger-carrying capacity after modifications for military service is not revealed

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas C-54 is the military versi...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial plants: It's the new oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premier April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons, and was designed and built by the Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the United Nations. Railroad cars stand on a side track ready to receive cargoes of gasoline stored in large spherical tanks at the refinery of one of the principal U.S. oil companies. The cars will speed the gasoline across the American continent to seaports where it will be loaded onto tanker ships for conveyance overseas to the armed forces of the United Nations. Gasoline totals have reached new records since the U.S. entered the war. Besides the enormous amounts required to fuel the 180,000 planes American factories have turned out since December 7, 1941, large supplies of fuel are needed for naval vessels, merchant ships, tanks and mechanized units in the field. It takes 25,000 gallons of gasoline to move a single U.S. Army tank division 100 miles (160 kilometers)

America's petroleum industries pour out fuel and lubricants for the Un...

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[Companies M and K, Three hundred and twenty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-second Division, advancing on enemy positions, throwing hand grenades. Choloy, France]

[Companies M and K, Three hundred and twenty-sixth Infantry, Eighty-se...

Title from United States. War Dept. General Staff. Catalogue of Official A.E.F. photographs, volume 2, page 56. No. 18772.

Oil companies have no desire to create monopoly, House Judiciary Committee told. Washington, D.C., June 23. W.S. Farish, President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, said before the House Judiciary Committee today that there is keen competition among oil companies and that major companies have no desire to create a monopoly. Farish joined other oil company executives in condemning before the committee a bill to divorce production, refining, and marketing processes of the oil industry

Oil companies have no desire to create monopoly, House Judiciary Commi...

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Rep. Maury Maverick. Determined [...] Rep. Maury Maverick, D.of Tex., was one of the determined witnesses who offered opinions regarding the practices of utility holding companies in their lobby activities in connection with the recent Utility "death sentence"

Rep. Maury Maverick. Determined [...] Rep. Maury Maverick, D.of Tex., ...

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"Track storage." Most of the bigger companies store their potatoes in these storage barns. This group is along the Aroostook river in Caribou, Maine

"Track storage." Most of the bigger companies store their potatoes in ...

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Bantam, Connecticut. In the basement of the town firehouse is the bowling alley, revenue from which helps to support the town's volunteer fire companies. Each night is alloted to a specific group, and there are several hot rivalries. Among the women shown here is Mrs. Winfield Peterson whose husband is foreman of the Warren McArthur experimental shop

Bantam, Connecticut. In the basement of the town firehouse is the bowl...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the companies who fought the Comings (i.e. Cummings) Point Batteries

Encampment of Palmetto Guard, Sumter Guard, and Marion Artillery, the ...

Photograph shows three Confederate soldiers amidst the fortifications at their camp at Cummings Point on Morris Island in preparation for the capture of Fort Sumter. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015... More

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Shipping and transportation; Railroad companies and shipping lines, A-Y

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Senate Committee told that telegraph companies cannot meet provisions of wages and hours act. Washington, D.C., May 22. Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, today told a Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that Western Union and Postal could not meet provisions of the Wages and Hours Act 'without going further into the red.' He was testifying on a resolution recently introduced by Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, which would authorize a complete study of the telegraph industry

Senate Committee told that telegraph companies cannot meet provisions ...

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Luke Weldon farms twenty-eight acres in truck crops. In the south Jersey area of industrial truck farming many others like him have to do part-time farm labor for the big companies, where they use airplanes. He sprays by hand. Near Bridgeton, New Jersey

Luke Weldon farms twenty-eight acres in truck crops. In the south Jers...

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Informs President SEC ready to proceed with investigation of insurance companies. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving the White House today after reporting to President Roosevelt that the commission was ready to proceed with its investigation of insurance companies in connection with the present monopoly inquiry. He indicated the SEC would be concerned primarily with the investment and managerial phases of insurance company operation and said approximately $300,000 would be required to carry out the work in this calendar year, 1/24/38

Informs President SEC ready to proceed with investigation of insurance...

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[60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Testifying today before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, C. Nelson Sparks, Akron, O., former Mayor and Chairman of a Law and Order League during the 1936 rubber strike, declared that 60 percent of the town's population is now living on government or state relief checks since rubber companies decentralized their operations after a wave of strikes]

[60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee tol...

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Insurance magnate tells of $100,000,000 dividends to stockholders. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. Frederick H. Eckner, Chairman of the Board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., told the Monopoly Study Committee that the past ten years' average annual dividends represented $100,000,000. He said that he wanted to remove the impression that $20,900,000,000 excess of income over expenditures of 308 reserve life insurance companies between 1918 and 1937 represented profit, 2-7-39

Insurance magnate tells of $100,000,000 dividends to stockholders. Was...

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Track storage. Most big companies store their potatoes in these barns along Aroostook River in Caribou, Maine

Track storage. Most big companies store their potatoes in these barns ...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the...

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Business planes help companies provide service and jobs General aviation private planes do a world of things you never hear.

Business planes help companies provide service and jobs General aviati...

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[District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and crew of 100-pdr. Parrott gun on iron barbette carriage at Fort Totten]

[District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.

[Corporal James M. Dennis of Company F, 16th Ohio Infantry Regiment, and Companies A and F, 114th Ohio Infantry Regiment, with Hannah C. Barnard]

[Corporal James M. Dennis of Company F, 16th Ohio Infantry Regiment, a...

Photo shows identified soldier and woman. Case: Rinhart, no. 123-25 variant. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Identification information from paper found behind photograph. Gift; Tom Liljenqui... More

[Corporal James M. Dennis of Company F, 16th Ohio Infantry Regiment, and Companies A and F, 114th Ohio Infantry Regiment, with Hannah C. Barnard]

[Corporal James M. Dennis of Company F, 16th Ohio Infantry Regiment, a...

Photo shows identified soldier and woman. Case: Rinhart, no. 123-25 variant. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Identification information from paper found behind photograph. Gift; Tom Liljenqui... More

[Corporal James M. Dennis of Company F, 16th Ohio Infantry Regiment, and Companies A and F, 114th Ohio Infantry Regiment, with Hannah C. Barnard]

[Corporal James M. Dennis of Company F, 16th Ohio Infantry Regiment, a...

Photo shows identified soldier and woman. Case: Rinhart, no. 123-25 variant. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Identification information from paper found behind photograph. Gift; Tom Liljenqui... More

Record of a nine months' regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, The 151st regiment, Penna. volunteers ... List of losses at Gettysburg, by companies. Hamburg, Pa. The Item printing house. [186-].

Record of a nine months' regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, The 151...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 159, Folder 34.

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under FSA (Farm Security Administration) management. In the clinic at the camp which now houses Japanese-American farm workers. Medical care is provided by the sugar beet companies

Rupert, Idaho. Former CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camp now under...

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The best-dressed army in the world. Regardless of where the troops may be, there will always be clothing for the men in the field. Shown here are members of one of the engineer companies of Lieutenant-General Walter Kreuger's Third Army being issued clothing while in the field during the Louisiana maneuvers

The best-dressed army in the world. Regardless of where the troops may...

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The twelve superior companies of the city of London, with their arms

The twelve superior companies of the city of London, with their arms

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Twelve.

Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy #6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. He has been messenger for different companies for four years. Goes to the Reservation every day. See Hine report on Messengers. Location: Shreveport, Louisiana.

Percy Neville, eleven year old messenger boy. Messenger boy #6 for Mac...

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Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red Cross, 1878-1957; Relief operations; Spanish-American War; Shipping and transportation; Railroad companies and shipping lines, A-Y

Clara Barton Papers: Red Cross File, 1863-1957; American National Red ...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Sawmills and logging companies threaten the remaining supply of timber in Garrett County, Maryland

Sawmills and logging companies threaten the remaining supply of timber...

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Rail Inquiry Chairman and Pennsy head view chart of Penna. R.R. holding companies. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. A huge chart showing the numerous subsidiaries controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad was on display at the Senate Rail Inquiry Committee room today. Chairman of the committee, Senator Burton K. Wheeler (left) is shown viewing the chart as he questions Martin W. Clement, President of the Pennsy, about the salaries paid directors of the road. Clement told the committee that his own salary had been increased from $60,000 to $100,000 on January 1, 1937, 12/15/37

Rail Inquiry Chairman and Pennsy head view chart of Penna. R.R. holdin...

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Western wheat country, in region where yields over twenty five bushels to the acre. Banks, mortgage companies and insurance companies own many farms in the area. Umatilla County, Oregon

Western wheat country, in region where yields over twenty five bushels...

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