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Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread in a bakery, before Pearl Harbor, but today twenty-one-year-old Eugenia Bireta is a qualified government inspector who tests gas masks for "eye leakage" on this pressure gauge. She's one of many young women employed by a large Midwest vacuum cleaner company now converted to production of gas masks. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread in a ba...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Describes wire-tapping of government phones. Washington, D.C., Jan. 17. Louis R. Glavis, former Interior Department Investigator, today described to the Senate Public Lands Committee how wire-tapping of department telephones was carried on after he discussed leakage of information with Secretary Ickes. He denied that White House wires had been tapped and President Roosevelt demanded such tapping cease. Glavis was summoned before the committee to be questioned on the qualifications of Ebert K. Burlew to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior. He is shown with Senator Key Pittman, (left) and Senator Alva Adams (center), 1/17/38

Describes wire-tapping of government phones. Washington, D.C., Jan. 17...

A group of three men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. Jeep driver testing a tire valve for leakage by the old "spit of finger" method

Holabird ordnance depot, Baltimore, Maryland. Jeep driver testing a ti...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane propellers. A three-bladed hydromatic propeller assembly for an American warplane is tested for oil leakage at a Hartford, Connecticut, plant. With this propeller, adjustments of blade pitch are made while the plane is in action

Production. Airplane propellers. A three-bladed hydromatic propeller a...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. A four foot wooden pipe taking Dead Sea water to the extensive evaporating pans. Note stalactites of salt formed by leakage in pipe

Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. A four foot woo...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description