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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Speed, speed, and more speed is the watchword in the De Land, Florida pool, where former shoe clerks, salesmen and farmers, men from every walk of life, are working shoulder to shoulder in the Babcock plant, turning out war work with grim efficiency. L.A. Lutrell, above, is typical of the De Land businessmen who are rolling out motor racks for the Air Corps on a record breaking production schedule

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Speed, speed, and more speed is the w...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-tolerance machine work? Ask A.E. Kenyon, pictured above as he operates a machine turning out war material for the De Land, Florida pool. He's been a toolmaker since 1895 in some of the biggest plants in the country. He retired to Florida and came back into industry to help out in the war. There are a dozen men like him in the plants of the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-toleran...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have a shop big enough to fulfill a two-million-dollar contract for gliders. So it took over the county fairgrounds, formerly winter quarters for a circus, and built an assembly line through its seventeen roomy buildings. The pool's first machines are shown being moved into the fairgrounds building

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A veteran factory worker, typical of the many seasoned craftsmen in the automobile industry, busily engaged in handling doors on the cab of an army truck

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A veteran factory worker, typical of t...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Forty-year-old John Oliver formerly operated a fishing camp on Florida's east coast. When the De Land pool formed, Oliver volunteered and turned out to be a first class machinist who had learned his trade in Oklahoma. Now he is assembly machinist in the plant, able to handle any job that comes along. He is typical of the retired skilled machinists being discovered daily in the state by pool operators

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Forty-year-old John Oliver formerly o...

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North American Aviation, Incorporated, Inglewood, California. Thousands of skilled craftsmen all over America enter the gates of warplane factories each day. Employees must display their badges and identification cards before admittance

North American Aviation, Incorporated, Inglewood, California. Thousand...

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Production. Minesweepers. The stem of a new minesweeper is fitted to its keel in an Eastern shipyard. Painstaking, skilled craftsmen fit every joint to exact dimensions. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. The stem of a new minesweeper is fitted to i...

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Production. Aircraft. Although the tiny part in this veteran's "mike" looks insignificant, its variation from perfection may mean a jammed gun, faulty landing gear, or stalled engine. This machinist in a large Western aircraft plant has had twenty-three years of experience. Craftsmen of his skill are at an all-time premium now

Production. Aircraft. Although the tiny part in this veteran's "mike" ...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production pools come from all walks and ways of life. Painter on the De Land war contract is Curtis Yelvington, forty-five, born and reared in De Land. He has one son in the coast artillery and another in the Navy, both volunteers. He says, "We are doing everything in our power to help win this war." In the last war, Yelvington tried to enlist three times and finally made it - the day before the armistice was signed

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Workers in Florida's war production p...

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Miscellaneous design. A view of the Anderson County art center, a simple, homespun institution which represented the first formal recognition of area in the East Tennessee hill country. Exhibits were supplied generally by the Federal Art Project, although the work of local craftsmen, amateur artists, and school children was exhibited as often as possible

Miscellaneous design. A view of the Anderson County art center, a simp...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded as a tourist playground without machines or men capable of war production. Since Pearl Harbor, along the highways and byways of the state, precision machinery is daily being discovered in small shops like this, which are producing close-tolerance work for the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was regarded ...

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Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barracks. Camp Blanding, Florida

Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barrac...

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Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barracks. Camp Blanding, Florida

Construction workers around stove after work in new craftsmen's barrac...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into De Land, Florida three times a week last fall to attend the city's vocational school, established to provide workers for the community war-production pool. He welds, runs an acetylene cutting machine, and doubles in brass on woodworking and the assembly line in the Babcock plant, prime contractors of the pool. He plans to put his sixty-five-year-old father on the job as his helper when he is fully trained. Stephens, forty-four and a veteran of the last war, was one of eighteen machinists uncovered by a manpower survey of the community

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Ben Stephens tramped six miles into D...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former house painter, is a valuable worker in the De Land, Florida pool. He served in the last war with the British Army from Vimy Ridge to the Occupation. Two of his sons are in the American Army, one with the Air Corps in Australia. His daughter volunteered for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp. Seven of his nephews are in the British Army. Using his old skill with the brush, he is now painting De Land pool products

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Sixty-year-old George Lane, former ho...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. Among the many young men working at this plant in Ohio, are a group of older craftsmen, veterans such as those whose work with complicated metal stampings is essential to the smooth production of airplane sub-assembly parts. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Among the many young men working at thi...

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Int. Assn. of [...] House Craftsmen, 5/2/21

Int. Assn. of [...] House Craftsmen, 5/2/21

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