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Brigadier General Brice P. Disque, Coordinator for Anthracite, Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, Department of Interior, speaking before labor-management committee members at Hazleton, July 30th

Brigadier General Brice P. Disque, Coordinator for Anthracite, Office ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 71D, Propulsion Laboratory, Fuels & Lubricants, Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Area B, Building 71D, Propulsion Labo...

Significance: Building 71D is part of the Power Plant Laboratory Complex, the site of essential aircraft engine research and development, particularly during the 1930s and '40s. It was built due to the increas... More

Meeting of speakers, prior to rally for labor-management committee members, Scranton, July 29th. Left to right: Brigadier General Brice P. Disque, Coordinator for Anthracite, Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, Department of Interior; Richard Maize, Secretary of Mines, State of Pennsylvania; Michael J. Kosik, District President of United Mine Workers of America; Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headquarters; Mart F. Brennan, Acting District President, UMWA and Regional Representative of UMWA for anthracite; Frank W. Earnest, Jr., President, Anthracite Industries Incorporated; Frank C. Wright, Jr., Washington representative for the anthracite industry

Meeting of speakers, prior to rally for labor-management committee mem...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War production suggestions. For making a contribution that will safeguard lives of combat pilots, James A. Merrill, research chemist at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, was presented with a Citation of Individual Production Merit by War Production headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB). His suggestion concerned development of a resistant barrier to aromatic fuels used in bullet seal tanks on airplanes. It will help keep planes in the air under extreme weather conditions, save the lives of pilots returning in planes with gas tanks pierced by bullets, and lessen unnecessary plane crashes

War production suggestions. For making a contribution that will safegu...

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Substitute fuels tested. Emmet L. Reed, laboratory assistant at the U.S. Bureau of Standards, uses a special microscope to measure the degree of wear which substitute gasoline has produced on an automobile engine cylinder

Substitute fuels tested. Emmet L. Reed, laboratory assistant at the U....

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Substitute fuels tested. Conducting an experiment to determine whether engine wear is increased by the use of fuel substitutes, Emmet L. Reed of Washington, D.C. makes an identification mark on the cylinder of an automobile engine. The rate of the mark's disappearance will determine the degree of wear. This is part of the "ersatz" fuel experiments which are being conducted at the U.S. Bureau of Standards

Substitute fuels tested. Conducting an experiment to determine whether...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Communist China, fuels and power. - Public domain map

Communist China, fuels and power. - Public domain map

Shows coal and petroleum producing areas. "10-67." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on: 273. Map number cut out. Mounted on cloth and laminated.