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01/01/1942
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Chairman of the Joint

Citation winner. Certificate winner, George Smolarek, employed in the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

Citation winners. Donald M. Nelson, (extreme left) Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), and William G. Marshall (extreme right) director of the WPB, are here shown outside the White House with certificate winner Stanley Crawford, (second from left) and citation winner Edwin Curtiss Tracy, both employees of the RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey

Donald M. Nelson, chairman, War Production Board (WPB)

[Assignment: 48-DPA-SOI_K_MMS_Shell_7-17-06] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne [and aides] to the Louisiana coast for Shell Oil [briefing on offshore energy production, tour of offshore platform, fly-over of New Orleans and surrounding areas. Joining the Interior delegation for the offshore tour were Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and Congressman Bobby Jindal.] [48-DPA-SOI_K_MMS_Shell_7-17-06_DOI_8496.JPG]

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Nelson congratulates a blind worker. For her work in training blind persons for war industries, Miss Helen Hurst, founder of the Helen Hurst Foundation For the Blind, was congratulated by Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board (WPB) chairman. Miss Hurst, herself blind, tries out the various types of jobs to see if they can be done by blind people before she places them in industry

Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. A.F. of L. Head William Green and Davod Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, attended last night's opening performance of 'Pins and Needles,' the stage production of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union

Robert E. Wilson, consultant, petroleum unit, Chemical and Allied Products Section, Materials Branch, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Detroit, Michigan. Foreman attending a production meeting at the Allison plant

Washington, D.C. Mario Verdi (left), OWI (Office of War Information) radio commentator for Italy, visiting Mr. Leo Crowley, administrator of the Federal Economic Administration

Citations of individual production merit awarded. The first five Citations of Individual Production Merit have been awarded to five war workers, War Production Drive Headquarters has announced. The citation is the highest honor conferred for individual achievement. It is granted only for ideas or suggestions that have an outstanding effect on the entire war effort. Joseph H. Kautsky, Indianapolis, Indiana, an employee of the Lin-Belt Co., was awarded his citation for four suggestions, each technical. He suggested a grinding wheel adapter, which permits higher speeds in internal grindings; a simplification cutting down the number of special internal grinding spindle wheel adapters from twelve to three; the adoption of a precision screw adjustment to the vertical column of dial indicator guages, to get faster adjustments without danger to the dials; and a new method of testing the concentricity of internally ground parts. The picture shows Mr. Kautsky (center) being congratulated by formean Bill Whitaker (right) as Superintendant R. E. Whitney (left) looks on

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