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Because of the shortage of housing in Quincy, families with large number of children are finding it almost impossible to find a house. Real estate agents, realizing that their houses are in demand have become very choosy about their tenants. These children are some that belong to two families. One has five and the other six. Both families living in one house which is very inadequate. Massachusetts

Because of the shortage of housing in Quincy, families with large numb...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious sacks of cotton prior to shipment to the ginning mills. Because of the U.S. agricultural labor shortage hundreds of these Good Neighbors gave farmers of Corpus Christi, Texas a hand in the harvesting of this vital war crop

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious s...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Messina, Sicily. Unloading American white flour from an Italian schooner to help relieve the shortage here

Messina, Sicily. Unloading American white flour from an Italian schoon...

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The latest in eye shields--for desert warfare. A shortage of non-inflammable celluloid has prompted the Union of South Africa government to utilize old photographic negatives to make eye shields needed for use in desert warfare. The original images in the shield can be seen by turning the picture upside down. The emulsion is washed off the negatives to make the shields transparent. More than a million such shields have been produced to protect United Nations soldier's eyes from wind, sand and dust. Margaret Bucci of Washington, D.C., demonstrated the shield

The latest in eye shields--for desert warfare. A shortage of non-infla...

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"How do I look?" Attractive playsuits for daughter can be made from that old housedress with the splitting seams, and junior's first long pants (no cuffs) can be cut from father's old overcoat. With shortage of wool and other materials needed by the armed forces, it's a wise mother who conserves clothing by altering and remodelling used garments for other members of the family

"How do I look?" Attractive playsuits for daughter can be made from th...

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Needles, California. Due to the inability to handle the great crowds on the trains, and because of the labor shortage, the restaurant of the Harvey House at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad yard serves only railroad employees

Needles, California. Due to the inability to handle the great crowds o...

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Warns U.S. of crop shortage, Washington, D.C. Aug. 12. The country will be faced with the worst crop shortage in years during 1936, according to Joseph A. Becker, chairman of the crop reporting board of the Department of Agriculture. Shortage of corn will be the worst since 1881 and potatoes will also be scarce. Becker's potato chart shows a decrease of the million bushels planted in 1936 compared to the production in 1925, which was also a lean year. This means you eaters who number spuds among your favorite dishes, will have to be content with 2.7 bushels per person this year

Warns U.S. of crop shortage, Washington, D.C. Aug. 12. The country wil...

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High school Victory Corps. Bill Brady is one of many students at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland who are helping to relieve the manpower shortage in his community. He attends school in the morning, works at a local machine shop in the afternoon. His employment is part of the school directed program originally designed to provide work experience for the students

High school Victory Corps. Bill Brady is one of many students at Montg...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wheels for wagons. Loading completed wagon wheels and running gear assemblies from a Southern wagon wheel plant which is enjoying boom business these days because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wheels for wagons. Loading completed wagon w...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, comprehensive clerical work is carried on between maneuvers. Unless those typewriters not essential to the war effort are turned in by civilians to Uncle Sam, the shortage of sufficient machines may materially cripple the speed and facility of army operations

Forty-two keys to victory. Somewhere in the field with the U.S. Army, ...

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Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage

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Hopkins denies AGC Charges. Washington, D.C. October 11. In a radio speech this morning WPA Administrator, Harry Hopkins, denied charges made by the Associated General Contractors of America that the WPA should be blamed for labor shortage. He said that "WPA projects in communities have been efficiently run and that the unemployed on these projects have been well treated, when the AGC complained that cities were unable to find workers because they were all employed in the WPA. When charged of boondoggling, Hopkins replied that it reminded him of the "Old Story of the bandits in South America," He said "they are never in the town which you are visiting, they are always just over the hill, and the townspeople will tell you they are there but when you look for them you never find them"

Hopkins denies AGC Charges. Washington, D.C. October 11. In a radio sp...

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Green o.k.'s Wagner Housing Bill before Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., April 14. Appearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Education and Labor today, A.F. of L. President William Green endorsed the Wagner $1,040,000,000 [?] Housing Bill and called it "a modest beginning toward the solution of one of our greatest social and economic problems." Green, added, the bill is needed to provide low-rent housing for the workers of the country in order that their purchasing power may not be curtailed as rents rise under an "acute" housing shortage, 4/14/1937

Green o.k.'s Wagner Housing Bill before Senate Committee. Washington, ...

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Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs on the plains, in the brush, and in many cheap auto trailer camps of Kern County, California, reflect the shortage of housing for low income workers

Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs...

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Sign at lumber company. San Diego, California. Building supply companies in San Diego are doing a tremendous rush business and there are rumors (unverified) of shortage in building materials

Sign at lumber company. San Diego, California. Building supply compani...

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Jane Womack models new uniform selected for 100,000 defense volunteers to be trained as nurse's aides by the American Red Cross. The training project, in collaboration with the Office of Civilian Defense, is designed to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because of demand for nurses

Jane Womack models new uniform selected for 100,000 defense volunteers...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

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Manpower, junior size. These hardy determined young fighters of the Jamison Elementary School in Roanoke, Virginia, are bent upon doing their best as members of Uncle Sam's newest home front fighting team, the junior army. Their teacher is explaining the seriousness of Uncle Sam's scrap metal, rubber, and fats shortage and how they are to be mobilized to collect this vital scrap

Manpower, junior size. These hardy determined young fighters of the Ja...

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Washington, D.C. A Red Cross nurse's aide taking a patient's pulse. Women between 18 and 50, who volunteered tlike this one for the 80-hour trainign course and 150-hour yearly service in hospitals, help to relieve the nurse shortage

Washington, D.C. A Red Cross nurse's aide taking a patient's pulse. Wo...

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Women in essential services. Member of the Oakland, California Women's Safety Traffic Reserve, Mrs. E.K. Sabel helps to relieve the shortage of traffic policemen by guarding school zones

Women in essential services. Member of the Oakland, California Women's...

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Houses for Britain. Assembling pre-fabricated temporary emergency house of the type which it is planned to ship to Great Britian under lend-lease to alleviate an acute housing shortage in Britian due to bombings. This model house was erected at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. by the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency which will undertake procurement of the dwelling under a directive from FEA to whom materials for 30,000 units have been allotted by War Production Board

Houses for Britain. Assembling pre-fabricated temporary emergency hous...

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Houses for Britain. Installing one of the roof panels in the prefabricated temporary emergency house of the type which the United States will ship to Great Britain under lend-lease. 30,000 will be shipped to Great Britain to alleviate acute housing shortage there due to bombings. Model house erected by Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C.

Houses for Britain. Installing one of the roof panels in the prefabric...

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Production. War housing trailers. Overcoming metal shortage is a big problem in trailer manufacture. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles has been able to replace metal fenders (wheel wells) successfully with plastic material made by a new process. Paper of forty pounds weight runs from rolls to a tent containing a glue-like solution. After it absorbs this solution, the operator breaks its stiffness by wadding and squeezing

Production. War housing trailers. Overcoming metal shortage is a big p...

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Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon plant comes this once familiar vehicle which is being built in great volume these days as a result of the rubber shortage. This worker is giving a farm wagon the final once-over

Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon ...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wheel assemblies ready for painting in the plant of a Southern wheel company which is having boom business these days on account of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wh...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Volunteer nurses aides help to relieve the shortage in graduate nurses by assisting in the feeding of patients as well as in making beds, giving baths, taking temperatures, pulse, respiration, etc. Photo shows Mrs. Thomas Couch, volunteer nurses aide, feeding patient in men's ward at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. Volunteer nurses aides help...

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Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petroleum carrier designed to help the oil shortage in the East. It is estimated by officials of the Office of Defense Transportation that one thousand such cars could add more than 15,000 barrels to the daily receipts of petroleum by rail in the East

Government and railroad officials inspect the new model boxcar petrole...

Housing. Manitowac, Wisconsin. Three youthful residents of the 400-unit federal housing project, in Manitowac, Wisconsin, investigate the merits of a neighbor's bird bath. Operated by the National Housing Authority (NHA), this project includes 400 prefabricated demountable, steel channel frame and plywood units, which helps to alleviate the city's housing shortage. Principal residents of the project are naval and civilian employees of Manitowac's shipyards

Housing. Manitowac, Wisconsin. Three youthful residents of the 400-uni...

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Sign on traffic stop-light in Hartford, Connecticut indicating housing shortage

Sign on traffic stop-light in Hartford, Connecticut indicating housing...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Another family moves into the defense trailer camp at Erie, Pennsylvania. Over 150 workers a week are brought in to the General Electric plant, one of the ten defense industries located there, creating an acute housing shortage. Preference is given to General Electric employees, since G.E. employs over 10,000 men on important Naval contracts

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Another family moves into the def...

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Scene in a shop where high school boys help the workers after school hours to relieve the manpower shortage

Scene in a shop where high school boys help the workers after school h...

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower shortage, which threatened the United States' summer cotton crops, Mexican workers were recently asked to assist farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, during the cotton harvest season

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower...

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Arlington, Virginia. A common scene in a room at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the United States government for the duration of the war. There is a shortage of space in the laundries, therefore the rooms are usually festooned with clothes. Authorities say that hanging the laundry outside will make the project look like a tenement

Arlington, Virginia. A common scene in a room at Idaho Hall, Arlington...

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New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Transportation hopes may soon be helping to solve the oil shortage in the East. The car is a standard automobile-type steel box car fitted with four steel tanks enclosed in wooden boxes. It has a capacity of 12,200 gallons--considerably more than the average tank car serving the East

New type of boxcar petroleum carrier which the Office of Defense Trans...

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Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month, and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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Victory food from American waters. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks on the ocean floor. A shortage of linen twine and Manila hemp needed for nets is only one of the war-time difficulties fishermen today must face

Victory food from American waters. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn ...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. William N. Young, owner and publisher of the Lititz Record-express. The paper helps a great deal in selling bonds, and in campaigning for civilian defense activities; but it may fold due to shortage to help and lack of national advertising since the war started

Lititz, Pennsylvania. William N. Young, owner and publisher of the Lit...

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Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage of housing for Negro women war workers in Washington, the Federal Works Agency (FWA) is completing construction of Wake and Midway Halls, which will accommodate 1,000 women. The project was erected by Samuel Plato, Negro contractor, at a cost of $1,600,000. Photo shows front elevation of the dining room and recreation buildings attached to the structure

Latest addition to D.C. War Housing Program. To relieve the shortage o...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks on the ocean floor. A shortage of linen twine and manila hemp needed for nets is only one of the war-time difficulties fishermen today must face

Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks...

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Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of the drastic fuel oil shortage in the East and rationing of the supplies which are available, homeowners are urged, where possible, to convert oil burning furnaces to coal. Second step is removing fire brick, installed for use with the oil burner

Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of ...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Applying the finishing touches to a completed wagon wheel in the painting room of a Southern wagon wheel company which is swamped with orders because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Applying the finishi...

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Blue Island, Illinois. Since the severe shortage of help at the Saint Francis hospital, Mrs. Senise contributes her time once a week to help out in the hospital cafeteria and restaurant

Blue Island, Illinois. Since the severe shortage of help at the Saint ...

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Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. It is planned to ship 30,000 of this type of prefabricated temporary emergency dwelling to Great Britain under lend-lease to alleviate acute housing shortage due to bombings.

Houses for Britain. Model house under construction at Scott Circle, Wa...

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A.F. of L. Head endorses Wagner Housing Bill. Washington, D.C., April 14. President William Green of the A.F. of L. discusses various phases of the Wagner $1,040,000,000 Housing Bill with Senator Robert F. Wagner (left) author of the bill, and Senator David [...] Walsh, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Education and Labor. Green appeared before the Committee today to give his endorsement of the bill. Besides believing unemployment and eliminating slums, the measure will provide low-rent housing for the workers of the country in order that their purchasing power may not be curtailed as rents rise under an "acute" housing shortage, Green told the Committee, 4/14/1937

A.F. of L. Head endorses Wagner Housing Bill. Washington, D.C., April ...

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Thousands of retired professional nurses are patriotically returning to work for the duration of the present emergency to help relieve the acute shortage of graduate registered nurses. Before going on active duty, they are given refresher courses in latest hospital techniques as shown in the above photo

Thousands of retired professional nurses are patriotically returning t...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks on the ocean floor. A shortage of linen twine and manila hemp needed for nets is only one of the war-time difficulties fishermen today must face

Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

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Because of the rubber shortage, many planes roll along assembly lines and onto the flight ramp on wooden wheels

Because of the rubber shortage, many planes roll along assembly lines ...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

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Tennessee Valley Authority Houses For Defense Workers. To help alleviate a serious housing shortage arising from increased employment in national defense industries, the Tennessee Valley Authority is building 100 conventionally built homes and 150 demountable houses for defense workers in the Muscle Shoals area in Northern Alabama.

Tennessee Valley Authority Houses For Defense Workers. To help allevia...

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Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, East Hartford, Connecticut, lives in trailer near the plant, with wife and four children because of housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep days in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and twelve dollars rent for the campsite

Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at United Aircraft, ...

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. A young Mexican acts as a Good Neighbor and gives a hand to cotton farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, where manpower shortage threatened the cotton crop. This young man is dumping the cotton into a truck, which will carry it to a ginning mill

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. A young Mexican acts as a Good N...

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Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Victory Corps student, Harry R. Smith, relieving the manpower shortage and receiving training at the same time by doing part-time work in a county engineer's office in the afternoon and attending classes at high school in the morning

Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Victory Corps s...

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious sacks of cotton prior to shipment to the ginning mills. Because of the U.S. agricultural labor shortage hundreds of these Good Neighbors gave farmers of Corpus Christi, Texas a hand in the harvesting of this vital war crop

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Mexican workers weigh precious s...

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Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon plant comes this once familiar vehicle which is being built in great volume these days as a result of the rubber shortage. This worker is giving a farm wagon the final once-over

Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon ...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Workers in a Southern wagon plant countersinking steel tire which has been attached to wheel assembly. Wagon wheel making is having a boom business because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Workers in a Sou...

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Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of the drastic fuel oil shortage in the East and rationing of the supplies which are available, homeowners are urged, where possible, to convert oil burning furnaces to coal. First step is removing the oil burner apparatus

Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of the drastic fuel oil shortage in the East and rationing of the supplies which are available, homeowners are urged, where possible, to convert oil burning furnaces to coal. Third step is replacing the coal grates in the furnace. After inspection and checking, the furnace is then ready for use and the lucky homeowner's fuel oil problem has been removed

Fuel conservation. Conversion of furnace to coal from oil. In face of ...

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Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The central dressing room at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., Mrs. Ethel Washington and Mrs Louise Beleno, senior aide, packing surgical kits as part of work of volunteer nurses aide class. These volunteers help relieve the shortage of graduate nurses

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The central dressing room a...

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Jerry on the job. "413-414-415-416, gee, this coal shortage is getting worse and worse"

Jerry on the job. "413-414-415-416, gee, this coal shortage is getting...

Seven-frame comic strip. Jerry, working in a railyard, counts lumps of coal. He reports the number to his boss, Mr. Givney, adding that some coal can be purchased in "New Monia." The boss orders him to go ge... More

Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs on the plains, in the brush, and in many cheap auto trailer camps of Kern County, California, reflect the shortage of housing for low income workers

Housing of families living on Works Progress Administration (WPA) jobs...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, employed at the United Aircraft plant, lives in trailer near the plant, with his wife and four children, because of the housing shortage. He works nights, so he can sleep during the day in a bed used at night by two of the children. He makes forty dollars a week, his trailer payment is twenty dollars per month and his rent for the campsite is twelve dollars

East Hartford, Connecticut. Frank Robbins of Wareham, Massachusetts, e...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower shortage, which threatened the United States' summer cotton crops, Mexican workers were recently asked to assist farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, during the cotton harvest season

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower...

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Arlington, Virginia. A girl looking at snapshots in her room at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of the war. A typical room scene since there is a shortage of space in the laundries and authorities say that hanging the laundry outside will make the project look like a tenement

Arlington, Virginia. A girl looking at snapshots in her room at Idaho ...

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Columbus, Ohio. An old model bus, which would ordinarily have been scrapped but which are now rebuilt and used because of the shortage of buses, parked in Columbus

Columbus, Ohio. An old model bus, which would ordinarily have been scr...

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Houses for Britain. Partition panels going into place in model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. It is planned to ship 30,000 of this type of prefabricated, temporary emergency dwelling to Great Britain under lend-lease to alleviate acute housing shortage there due to bombings. Materials have been allotted by War Production Board and the Federal Public Housing Authority of the National Housing Agency will undertake the procurement of the houses, acting under a directive from FEA

Houses for Britain. Partition panels going into place in model house e...

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Labor Department and CIO at President's coal dispute conference. Washington, D.C., May 9. As the two month old labor dispute of the coal fields moved from New York to the National Capitol today, when the president made a move to settle the differences in the role of mediator, John L. Lewis, President of the C.I.O., charging responsibility for the dispute upon the Labor Department and the administration, Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor and James Dewey, Labor Department conciliator blaming the operators, all entered the White House this morning to try to settle the dispute before an acute shortage of coal occurs

Labor Department and CIO at President's coal dispute conference. Washi...

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Stenographers! The Kaiser is afraid of you! There is a shortage of 5000 stenographers ... / / H.

Stenographers! The Kaiser is afraid of you! There is a shortage of 500...

Ordnance Dept. recruiting poster showing the Kaiser, holding a bloody sword, cowering in the shadow of a young woman typing.

Working on housing display. These representatives of the Manufacturers' Housing Display Council and the Treasury Department discuss methods of stimulating building to care for a shortage of houses indicated in a recent survey. From the left: Peter Grimm, assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury; Russell G. Creviston, chairman of the council, and Marshall Adams, Vice Chairman. Creviston is a Crane Co., official, and Adams is with American Radiator Co. Grimm is President of William A White & Sons of New York, who has been loaned to the Treasury Department, 10/30/35

Working on housing display. These representatives of the Manufacturers...

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Men applying for work at the office of the Texas State Employment Service, Corpus Christi, Texas. In Corpus Christi there is now surplus supply of unskilled labor and a shortage of skilled labor

Men applying for work at the office of the Texas State Employment Serv...

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High school boys and girls going out to pick peas. Canyon County, Idaho. There was a labor shortage in county and the growers advertized for pickers over the radio. They picked up the pickers in trucks. They hired none under fifteen years of age

High school boys and girls going out to pick peas. Canyon County, Idah...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Finished wagon wheel hub assemblies piled in the plant of a Southern wagon builder who is receiving a great demand for his products on account of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Finished wagon wheel hub assemblies piled in...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Washington, D.C. Photographs for a poster or billboard to persuade citizens not to complain about wartime shortage of coffee

Washington, D.C. Photographs for a poster or billboard to persuade cit...

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Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, D.C.

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Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The call for 100,000 volunteer nurses aides to relieve the acute shortage of graduate nurses is answered by Negro housewives and mothers throughout the country. At Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. where an eighty-hour training courses has been in progress since last October. Volunteers begin practical training in the central dressing room. Photo shows Mrs. Louis Lucas (left) and Miss Susie Freeman (right) wrapping bandages

Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The call for 100,000 volunt...

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Houses for Britain. Side view of model prefabricated house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. of the type of temporary, emergency family dwelling which it is planned to ship to Great Britain under lend-lease to alleviate acute housing shortage due to bombings. Left, kitchen, bathroom, and three windows belonging to one of two bedrooms

Houses for Britain. Side view of model prefabricated house erected by ...

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Underground at Old Ben number eight mine. These men are on a "man-trip" which goes three and half miles to the face of the coal. General caption: Most of the giant coal producers in Franklin Couny have completely mechanized underground operations. Old Ben number eight, because of shortage of working capital, has not been able to install loading machines to handle the entire output of the mine. Accordingly, the mine still uses the now obsolete pit car loader, and even employs a few hand loaders alongside modern, highly efficient automatic loading machines

Underground at Old Ben number eight mine. These men are on a "man-trip...

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Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian defense program is that of nurse's aide. Training of 100,000 volunteers as nurse's aides is designed by the American Red Cross, working with the Office of Civilian Defense, to relieve the acute shortage of nursing service threatening civilian hospitals and health agencies because

Biggest and most immediately useful role for women in the civilian def...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker back to the lathe. Employed now by a small Eastern manufacturing firm which used to make floor waxers but is now completely converted to war production, this worker had only a trade school course in mechanics taken fifteen years ago as background for his new job. He operated his own confectionery business until the sugar shortage forced him into a new field. But he's glad to be aiming gun-sight parts at the Axis. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker ...

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Washington, D.C. Photographs for a poster or billboard to persuade citizens not to complain about wartime shortage of coffee

Washington, D.C. Photographs for a poster or billboard to persuade cit...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and polishing machines, this small Eastern factory is now one of the America's myriad plants devoted to production of small machine parts for war purposes. Foreseeing possibilities of shortage of aluminum (necessary for polishing equipment), this factory's owner sought defense subcontracts many months ago, he is now operating twenty-two hours a day with a crew of thirty workers, a distinct improvement over his previous eight hours, three-worker days. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and pol...

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Food in England. Soldiers in Northern Ireland work with a tractor and harvester to cut a ten-acre field of oats. Many British soldiers, without previous farm experience have been released for temporary emergency farm work and have helped to ease the farm labor shortage

Food in England. Soldiers in Northern Ireland work with a tractor and ...

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New Britain, Connecticut. Committee which launched a successful drive to utilize all available women for industrial and defense plants when the labor shortage became acute due to manpower being drafted into the Army

New Britain, Connecticut. Committee which launched a successful drive ...

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Unconnected sink in tourist court which is being constructed for use of workmen at the naval air base. Corpus Christi, Texas. There is a shortage of skilled labor in Corpus Christi and consequently it is difficult to get plumbing work completed when planned

Unconnected sink in tourist court which is being constructed for use o...

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Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, March 25, 1864 (Shortage of seamen in the navy)

Gideon Welles to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, March 25, 1864 (Shortage of...

Men eating afternoon meal at the Salvation Army. Corpus Christi, Texas. The Salvation Army says that they have a heavy case load because of stranded unskilled laborers in the city. There is now a surplus supply of unskilled labor and a shortage of skilled labor in the city

Men eating afternoon meal at the Salvation Army. Corpus Christi, Texas...

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