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Refrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled from the assembly lines of a large eastern manufacturer, meant a new job for Gertie Saurborn. Formerly, her work was silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators destined for American homes. Now transferred to war work, along with hundreds of other former refrigerator employees, she is doing her part toward protecting those home by testing regulators being produced for U.S. Army and Navy bombers

Refrigerators to bombers. The last electric refrigerator that rolled f...

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The "War of Races"--The conflict in Tennessee - the "Regulators" shooting Blacks near Trenton, in Gibson County / sketched by W. Webb Metz.

The "War of Races"--The conflict in Tennessee - the "Regulators" shoot...

Three African American men on ground after being shot; armed men on horseback in moonlight in background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 39, 1874 Sept. 19, p. 17.

Refrigerators to bombers. Before conversion of her employer's plant to war production, Gertie Saurborn worked silver-soldering tubes on float cases for refrigerators. She still works for the same employer but now she tests regulators which her firm makes for use in Army and Navy bombers

Refrigerators to bombers. Before conversion of her employer's plant to...

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