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CIO Head calls on president. Washington, D.C., Dec. 19. CIO President John L. Lewis arriving at the White House today where he conferred for 20 minutes with President Roosevelt, he refused to discuss with reporters the nature of his visit but did say, however, that he as there at the president's invitation

CIO Head calls on president. Washington, D.C., Dec. 19. CIO President ...

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Learn to swim in twenty minutes. At the end of 20 minutes, combining windmill and spatter boat movements clams can swim

Learn to swim in twenty minutes. At the end of 20 minutes, combining w...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Lothers & Young. Group title: Water, First Aid. Gift; American National Red ... More

Machine performs half a day's manual labor in 5 minutes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. H.J. Keegan of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, using the spectrophotometer to determine the different colors in a piece of cloth. It formerly took a man a half a day to make this spectrum analysis but now the machine does it in five minutes. The machine measures the % of light transmitted or reflected at various wave lengths in the visible spectrum

Machine performs half a day's manual labor in 5 minutes. Washington, D...

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[I dare say that it was twenty minutes or so that I lay paralyzed and watched its face]

[I dare say that it was twenty minutes or so that I lay paralyzed and ...

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Creeping Man" by A. Conan Doyle, Hearst's International magazine, 43:10 (March 1923).

Washington Post article, August 6, 1926 Houdini in sealed coffin under water 90 minutes

Washington Post article, August 6, 1926 Houdini in sealed coffin under...

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Cup to winner of marathon. Washington, D.C. June 12. Winner of the sixth annual Evening Star Marathon for the National A.A.U. Championship today, Mel Porter of the Millrose A.A. of New York is presented with a bronze trophy by Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Director of the Pan-American Union. A field of the fastest marathon runners in the western hemisphere participated in the race which started at Mt. Vernon, Virginia and finished at the zero milestone in Potomac Park. Porters time for the distance was 2 hours and 43 minutes.

Cup to winner of marathon. Washington, D.C. June 12. Winner of the six...

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Noted British artist completes portrait of President Hoover. Douglas Chandor, noted British portrait painter, shown at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington with the much discussed picture of President Hoover which he completed today at the White House. This final sitting, which lasted 30 minutes, took place in the Cabinet meeting room. The painting is life size, three quarter length, and shows the President seated at the head of the Cabinet table, 1/23/31

Noted British artist completes portrait of President Hoover. Douglas C...

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Widal inspects engine in new Flivver plane. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. A new Flivver plane, powered with a Ford V-8 Motor and capable of a cruising speed of 95 miles an hour, was demonstrated to Eugene Vidal, Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce, Department of Commerce, today. The plane has a wing spread of 36 feet. A low gas mileage is claimed for the ship, 16 miles to the gallon, on its flight from St. Louis to Chicago in 2 hours, 33 minutes. Director Vidal is shown inspecting the motor with Hayden Campbell, of St. Joseph, Mo., who flew the plane here

Widal inspects engine in new Flivver plane. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15....

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Wash. D.C. Beating the Gun. These congressmen gather on the steps of the Capitol in an effort to beat the adjournment gun by a few minutes. The session was drawing to a close as this photo was made. From the left: Representatives Herman P. Koppleman, D. of Conn.: John J. Delaney, D. of NY: William P. Connery, D. of Massachusetts.: Edward A. Kenney, D. of NJ; Kent E. Keller, D. of Ill.; Caroline O'Day, D. of NY; William T. Schulte, D. of Inf.; William A. Sirovich, D. of NY; Jennings Randolph, D. of West Virginia, and John Lewinski, D. of Mich. 8/24/35

Wash. D.C. Beating the Gun. These congressmen gather on the steps of t...

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First picture of Coal Commission. This is the first picture showing all five members of the Bituminous Coal Commission. Chairman Charles F. Hosford, Jr., issued a statement, a few minutes before the picture was made, that the group "deplored" efforts to stampede coal producers into refusing to come under the new Guffey Coal Act." From the left: seated, Walter H. Maloney, Chairman Nosford, and George F. Acret. Standing, C.F. Smith, left, and Percy Tetlow, 10/25/35

First picture of Coal Commission. This is the first picture showing al...

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Palestine disturbances 1936. A striking contrast taken a few minutes after the preceding picture, showing the harbour alive with activity after an uncanny deadness of nearly six months. The unloading of baggage & passengers from harbour lighters [Jaffa]

Palestine disturbances 1936. A striking contrast taken a few minutes a...

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Housing. Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars to twelve dollars monthly

Housing. Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eigh...

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Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. Rent eight dollars monthly

Housing. City of Los Angeles. Within five minutes walk of City Hall. R...

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Philippine President broadcasts to home folks. Washington, D.C., April 5. President Manuel Quezon of Philippine Commonwealth broadcast from Washington today to his fellow-countrymen in Manila. For the 25 minutes he was on the air, President Quezon discussed woman suffrage and urged the 10-year independence program be limited to a shorter period, 4/5/1937

Philippine President broadcasts to home folks. Washington, D.C., April...

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"Putting the blast on." Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. At a specially called press conference today, Senator Royal Copeland of New York, charged that President Roosevelt "does more in five minutes to destroy democratic harmony than can be re-established in a generation of Jefferson Island picnics and peace dinners." He also told newsmen that the president's opposition to candidacy for the New York Mayorality is "directly tied in" with court issue. Copeland fought the court reorganization plan, 8/9/37

"Putting the blast on." Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. At a specially calle...

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Lowering baskets full of cans into cooking kettles. Cans of peas are steam pressure-cooked for twenty or thirty minutes. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Lowering baskets full of cans into cooking kettles. Cans of peas are s...

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Philippine president broadcasts to home folks. Washington, D.C., April 5. President Manuel Quezon of Philippine Commonwealth broadcast from Washington today to his fellow-countrymen in Manila. For the 25 minutes he was on the air, President Quezon discussed woman suffrage and urged the 10-year independence program be limited to a shorter period, 4/5/1937

Philippine president broadcasts to home folks. Washington, D.C., April...

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Maybe the reason for the short Senate Democratic Caucus. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Probably the Xmas cigars Senators Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, and Tom O'Connally lighted up was the reason for the short Senate Democratic Caucus, which unanimously re-elected Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky as Majority Leader. The harmonious meeting lasted only [...] minutes, 12/31/38

Maybe the reason for the short Senate Democratic Caucus. Washington, D...

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Congressional milking contest declared draw. Washington, D.C., June 9. The four congressmen competing for mlking championship of the 75th Congress today on the Capitol plaza deserted their cows to make speeches when the discovered a microphone nearby. Halting the contest in mid-squirt, Rep. Marvin Jones, acting as referee, declared it a draw after the contestants could show no more than a pint of milk for ten minutes of effort. Left to right: Rep. harry R. Sheppard, Calif.; Rep. Gerald J. Boileau, Wisconsin; Rep. Walter M. Pierce, Oregan; Rep. harold Knutson, Minnesota. Radio announcer Lee Everett holding the mike[mic], 6/9/38

Congressional milking contest declared draw. Washington, D.C., June 9....

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Senate Judiciary Committee ok's Reed. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. After hearing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings today, the Senate Judiciary Committee went into executive session for two minutes during which they voted unanimously to report favorably the nomination of Solicitor General Stanley Reed to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Solicitor General Stanley Reed, (right) is shown with Sen. M.M. Logan, (center) Chairman of the Subcommittee, and Attorney General Cummings following the report of the committee, 1/20/38

Senate Judiciary Committee ok's Reed. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. After...

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Congressional cow milker fold in the stretch. Washington, D.C., June 9. Rep. Harold Knutson, Republican of Minnesota, competing for the milking championship of the 75th Congress with three other representatives today on the Capitol plaza; started off with the grace of an electric milker. However, he folded with the rest of the solons after 10 minutes of effort produced no more than a pint. Rep. Marvin Jones, referee, declared the contest a draw, 6/9/38

Congressional cow milker fold in the stretch. Washington, D.C., June 9...

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Will lead Democrats in Senate this session. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. After a harmonious caucus which lasted only 20 minutes, Senate Democrats today re-elected unanimously Senator Alben W. Barkley as Majority Leader. At the same time, Senator J. Ham Lewis of Illinois, who considered resigning announced that at the request of President Roosevelt he would continue as Democratic Party Whip of the Senate. Senator Sherman Minton, right, of Indiana, was named Assistant Whip, 12/31/38

Will lead Democrats in Senate this session. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31....

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The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, Rhode Island. Extract from the minutes of the Committee of management, July 19, 1938 [Regarding the retirement of Mr. Joseph McCoid].

The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, Rhode Island. Extract from ...

John Carter Brown Library.; On verso: Gift John Carter Brown Library Dec. 6 1938.; The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as fac... More

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A feature of the twenty-eighth National Conference on Weights and Measures which opened in Washington today was display of the many parking meters now in use throughout the country. they range from 1cent to 5cents allowing the parker 20 minutes to half an hour. 49,500 meters are now in use in 56 cities. R.E. Gould, chief of the time section of the National Bureau of Standards, is pictured examining the display, 5/31/38

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A ...

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Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber, and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the ...

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Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N.M. Servicing of these diesel streamliners takes five minutes. Santa Fe R.R. trip

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "super Chief," being serviced at the de...

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Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the depot, Albuquerque, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Servicing these diesel streamliners takes five minutes

Santa Fe R.R. streamliner, the "Super Chief," being serviced at the de...

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Anzac Day, Jerusalem, April 25, 1940. The two minutes silence

Anzac Day, Jerusalem, April 25, 1940. The two minutes silence

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Minutes of meeting at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Minutes of meeting at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Fl...

Minutes of meeting at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Minutes of meeting at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Fl...

Tankers. Tankers left Gulf points for the Eastern seaboard at the rate of one every eighty minutes. Loading dock hoses like these serve a fleet of 300 vessels. An average tanker carries as much oil as 280 railroad tank cars, requiring four trains, four locomotives. Ships could haul oil for one cent a barrel as against necessary railroad rates of four cents. Low marine rates left no incentive for railroads or pipelines to equip themselves for transporting Eastern petroleum requirements

Tankers. Tankers left Gulf points for the Eastern seaboard at the rate...

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Bob Lindel Pearl Harbor, Hawaii....Tourists board the USS Arizona Memorial. The memorial spans the sunken hulk of the battleship Arizona (BB-39). The Arizona was sunk in the opening minutes of World War II during the Japanese attack on the harbor. Over 1,000 men are entombed in the vessel's hull, which is now a national cemetery. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTO (RELEASED)

Bob Lindel Pearl Harbor, Hawaii....Tourists board the USS Arizona Memo...

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Minutes of meeting at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida

Minutes of meeting at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Fl...

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant lunch wagon. At the left a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania plant. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious ...

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The captain is in his place and in a few minutes the plane will take off. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

The captain is in his place and in a few minutes the plane will take o...

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Air raid protection. Test "alarm." This and the accompanying photo (#1954) tell graphically what can be done when civilian defense officials, police and public all co-operate to make an "alarm" successful. These pictures were made on the morning of December 15, 1941, in Times Square, New York City. The time interval between photos was exactly five minutes. Within this time, in one of the most crowded metropolitan areas in the world, it was possible to stop all traffic, and to get all persons safely indoors. Those few remaining on the street are civilian defense officers (wardens, etc.)

Air raid protection. Test "alarm." This and the accompanying photo (#1...

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Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. A few minutes of well-earned rest for a strong, capable man. His work in an Eastern armor plate mill is an important contribution to America's war production drive

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, P...

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Crab cooker which holds about seven barrels of crabs. The cooking process lasts for thirty minutes and is done by live steam from boiler in background. Rock Point, Maryland

Crab cooker which holds about seven barrels of crabs. The cooking proc...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage.Time is short! Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant lunch wagon. At the left a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania plant

Antiaircraft gun carriage.Time is short! Workers take a few precious m...

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Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for defense workers. All trailers rent for seven dollars per week--rental fee includes electricity and water and use of laundry and all sanitary facilities. There is a fee of ten cents for twenty minutes usage of electrical washing machines. San Diego, California

Line-up of trailers at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp for...

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A black and white photo of a boat dock. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a boat dock. Office of War Information Phot...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

The captain is in his place and in a few minutes the plane will take-off. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C.

The captain is in his place and in a few minutes the plane will take-o...

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Air raid protection. Test "alarm." This and the accompanying photo (#1955) tell graphically what can be done when civilian defense officials, police and public all co-operate to make an "alarm" successful. These pictures were made on the morning of December 15, 1941, in Times Square, New York City. The time interval between photos was exactly five minutes. Within this time, in one of the most crowded metropolitan areas in the world, it was possible to stop all traffic, and to get all persons safely indoors. Those few remaining on the street are civilian defense officers (wardens, etc.)

Air raid protection. Test "alarm." This and the accompanying photo (#1...

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Anzac Celebration, Ap. 25, 1941 at war cemetery. Last post. Two minutes silence

Anzac Celebration, Ap. 25, 1941 at war cemetery. Last post. Two minute...

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The captain is in his place and in a few minutes the plane will take off

The captain is in his place and in a few minutes the plane will take o...

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Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Five minutes after they helped push in the old jalopy into the wrecking company's lot, Scouts Norman Vitting (right) and Bill Rave watch attentively while Chas. Revell of the wrecking crew starts the wrecking job

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Five minutes after they helped pus...

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A black and white photo of a group of men. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men. Office of War Information P...

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Ravalli County, Montana. New lamb a few minutes after birth, trying to get on its feet

Ravalli County, Montana. New lamb a few minutes after birth, trying to...

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Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. In perfect steeplechase form, these soldiers of the anti-aircraft training center fling themselves over the five-foot rail fence. Par for the course is three and a half minutes

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. In perfect steeplechase form, these soldi...

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Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. The war has brought approximately a thirty-three percent increase in housing facilities in Bantam--an eighty-unit federally financed housing project about five minutes from the Warren McArthur factory. The first forty units--two to a house, were occupied in early January 4, 1942 and the second forty had already been financed pending completion. As the automobiles and tires of workers in Bantam's defense industries wear out, it is probable that additional new housing facilities will be needed

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. The war has brought approxima...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs ships to carry its guns and tanks and planes to the battlefronts of the world. A few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards, workmen were busy laying the keel for a new ship in America's growing Victory Fleet

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs sh...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. Student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia, who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago, is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. Student paratroope...

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New River, North Carolina. Marines in training. Even toughened leathernecks appreciate a few minutes of rest after a long period of grueling action. But even while resting, these Marines, in training at New River, North Carolina, are very much on the alert. Marine barracks, New River, North Carolina

New River, North Carolina. Marines in training. Even toughened leather...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratroo...

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Science and research. Studies of non-coking coals. V.F. Parry, supervising engineer of the Golden, Colorado field station of the U.S. Bureau of Mines is "sighting a coke bubble." This procedure is used to determine if a given coke has changed its properties or it is similar to another coke. One gram of powdered coal is heated at 820 degrees centigrade for two and a half minutes. The resulting "bubble" is then compared with a standard chart to determine its characteristics, as revealed by the shape it has assumed. This research is part of a project to find ways of improving the quality of coke from western coal

Science and research. Studies of non-coking coals. V.F. Parry, supervi...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. The heating unit is in the kitchen of Fred Heath's four-room apartment in the new federally-financed homes for eighty families just a few minutes from the Warren McArthur factory in Bantam. The well-insulated coal fire puts steam in the radiators and provides the heat for cooking. The tenants are well-pleased although on several nights when the temperature dropped to ten degrees below zero they were forced to replenish the fuel every two or three hours. That cigarette Fred Heath holds is not tailor-made, by the way--he likes to roll his own

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. The heating unit is in the kitchen...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is an expert upholstery worker. He once ran his own furniture shop in Pittsburgh, and before coming to Bantam in June of 1941, supervised an upholstery shop in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Stewart, a Buffalo girl whom he married in 1936, is also working in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. They left their furnished room in a Bantam farmhouse in January, 1942, to occupy a four-room flat in the new eighty-unit defense homes project a few minutes from the plant

Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is a...

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Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical analysis, to match the rapidity with which the nation arms itself, is possible through use of the spectrograph, a marvelous new machine used for study of materials through measurements of the arc of light they emit when heated. The aluminum and magnesium industries, steel companies and foundries use it for quick study of metals. Mines use it for exploration. The spectrograph will yield an analysis of seven elements in fifteen minutes determination, which would require up to four hours by old chemical methods. Three students in defense training courses at a famous mining-engineering school listen as an instructor shows them how the machine operates. Golden, Colorado

Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Speed in metallurgical anal...

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Chicago, Illinois. Engineer getting into his cab. In a few minutes this train will leave a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard for the west coast

Chicago, Illinois. Engineer getting into his cab. In a few minutes thi...

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Turlock, California. Chopped cabbage is blanched for six minutes at 140 degrees heat before it is dehydrated

Turlock, California. Chopped cabbage is blanched for six minutes at 14...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would do credit to an old-timer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's Long Beach, California, plant. Sand bags for protection against air raids form the background. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minut...

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Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish farmer who also works in defense plant to pay off debt on farm. He has just arrived home from the factory, and in a few minutes will be doing odd chores around the farm

Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish farmer who also works in defe...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. After steel templates have been fastened to large sheets of metal, a router cuts a dozen sheets under each template in a matter of minutes. The work is being done in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. After steel templates have ...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's Long Beach, California, plant. Sand bags for protection against air raids form the background. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Lunchtime brings a few minut...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America's salvage campaign extends even into her shipyards. A workman is shown salvaging grease from the skids at the Wilmington yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation a few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named after a Negro, was launched on September 29, 1942

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America's salvag...

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Bantam, Connecticut. The war has brought approximately a thirty-three percent increase in housing facilities in Bantam--an eighty-unit federally financed housing project about five minutes from the Warren McArthur factory. The first forty units--two to a house, were occupied in early January 4, 1942 and the second forty had already been rented pending completion. As the automobiles and tires of workers in Bantam's defense industries wear out, it is probable that additional new housing facilities will be needed

Bantam, Connecticut. The war has brought approximately a thirty-three ...

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Turlock, California. Chopped cabbage is blanched for six minutes at 140 degrees heat before it is dehydrated

Turlock, California. Chopped cabbage is blanched for six minutes at 14...

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Ravalli County, Montana. New lamb about five minutes after birth on his legs for the first time

Ravalli County, Montana. New lamb about five minutes after birth on hi...

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Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin is molded into "bars" at a large Southern smelter in which the metal is extracted from South American ore. The tin is usually kept at a temperature of about 650 degrees while being molded. The metal is ready for removal in bars about two minutes after pouring

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin is molded into "bars" at a large So...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Five minutes after they helped push in the old jalopy into the wrecking company's lot, Scouts Norman Vitting (right) and Bill Rave watch attentively while Chas. Revell of the wrecking crew starts the wrecking job

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Five minutes after they helped pus...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratroo...

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Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. The war has brought approximately a thirty-three percent increase in housing facilities in Bantam--an eighty-unit federally financed housing project about five minutes from the Warren McArthur factory. The first forty units--two to a house, were occupied in early January 4, 1942 and the second forty had already been rented pending completion. As the automobiles and tires of workers in Bantam's defense industries wear out, it is probable that additional new housing facilities will be needed

Bantam, Connecticut. War workers' homes. The war has brought approxima...

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Citations of individual production merit awarded. The first five citations of Individual Production Merit have been awarded to five workers, the 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. Edwin Curtiss Tracy of Oaklyn, New Jersey, a field manager for RCA Manufacturing Co., Camden, New Jersey, suggested a new testing instrument for checking standard flight instruments without removing them from the planes, reducing the time planes are witheld from combat for tests to three minutes a plane, thus increasing the number of planes available for combat

Citations of individual production merit awarded. The first five citat...

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For submitting a suggestion which saves time in copper mining operations, Joseph Ekstrom has been given honorable mention from the Board for Individual Awards, War Production Drive headquarters. His suggestion saves from three to five minutes every time the length of cables used in unloading mine timber is changed. Ekstrom is an employee of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, Inspiration, Arizona

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For submitting a suggestion which saves time in copper mining operations, Joseph Ekstrom has been given honorable mention from the Board for Individual Awards, War Production Drive headquarters. His suggestion saves from three to five minutes every time the length of cables used in unloading mine timber is changed. Ekstrom is an employee of the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company, Inspiration, Arizona

For submitting a suggestion which saves time in copper mining operatio...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Fred Heath works on the night shift at the Warren McArthur plant in Bantam, and spends his days with Mrs. Heath and their three-year-old daughter, Ann. Here they are in the living room of the Heath's new four-room apartment, part of the new eighty-unit defense housing project just five minutes walk from the plant. The Heaths, who pay thirty dollars rent, like overstuffed chairs, and Ann also likes her overstuffed Teddy Bear

Bantam, Connecticut. Defense homes. Fred Heath works on the night shif...

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"Share The Meat" recipes. Braised stuffed heart. For the stuffing, chop an onion and a stalk of celery into two tablespoons of fat and cook for a few minutes. Add two to three cups of soft bread crumbs and season to taste with salt and pepper. Thyme goes well with heart--add a pinch to the stuffing

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under contol would do credit to an old timer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is an expert upholstery worker. He once ran his own furniture shop in Pittsburgh, and before coming to Bantam in June of 1941, supervised an upholstery shop in Buffalo, New York. Mrs. Stewart, a Buffalo girl whom he married in 1936, is also working in the Warren McArthur upholstery shop. They left their furnished room in a Bantam farmhouse in January, 1942, to occupy a four-room flat in the new eighty-unit defense homes project a few minutes from the plant

Bantam, Connecticut. A native of London, England, Malcolm Stewart is a...

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Chicago, Illinois. Workmen in the hump office resting a few minutes while waiting for the next "cut" to come over the hump in a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yard

Chicago, Illinois. Workmen in the hump office resting a few minutes wh...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under control would be credit to an oldtimer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He's one of Uncle Sam's student paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, but the way he's getting his chute under contol would do credit to an old timer. A few minutes ago this man bailed out of a high-speed plane at a point calculated to bring him to the spot where he is landing. Good work, soldier

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Picture of a man doing a good job. He'...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Lititz Borough Council in session. Secretary of the borough, Elam Habecker, inspecting his minutes

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Lititz Borough Council in session. Secretary of ...

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Bantam, Connecticut. The war has brought approximately a thirty-three percent increase in housing facilities in Bantam--an eighty-unit federally financed housing project about five minutes from the Warren McArthur factory. The first forty units--two to a house, were occupied in early January 4, 1942 and the second forty had already been rented pending completion. As the automobiles and tires of workers in Bantam's defense industries wear out, it is probable that additional new housing facilities will be needed

Bantam, Connecticut. The war has brought approximately a thirty-three ...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratroo...

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Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower into the armed forces brings increased activity to U.S. farmer's wives. One of these, Mrs. Harold Sontag of Maple Park, Illinois, finds the day all too short for the completion of her many chores. With cattle, horses, and poultry to tend, there are very few minutes for repose and relaxation in Mrs. Sontag's war-conditioned life

Agriculture. Women on farms. Induction of much of America's manpower i...

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Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish farmer who also works in defense plant to pay off debt on farm. He has just arrived home from the factory and in a few minutes will be doing odd chores around the farm

Norwich, Connecticut (vicinity). Swedish farmer who also works in defe...

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Turlock, California. Chopped cabbage is blanched for six minutes at 140 degrees heat before it is dehydrated

Turlock, California. Chopped cabbage is blanched for six minutes at 14...

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Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Outside the plant gate, they wait for busses like this one. Eighty-four busses of this type have been placed in service in about six weeks, and more are being added continually. Busses will make the circuit of all the gates, stopping a few minutes at each, then making a straight run to the railhead

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Outside the plant gate, they wait for bu...

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Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratroo...

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Three Thirds of the Nation. Here is the cast of the War Production Board (WPB) radio program "Steel." Rehearsal is over and the cast relaxes for a few minutes before going on the air. The actors shown here are Edward Arnold, Howard McNeer, Frank Graham, Fred Shields, Janet Eberhardt, Pat McGeehan, Cy Kendall, Eric Rolf, Lou Merrill, Lucille Meredith, Joe Kearns and Glen Ford

Three Thirds of the Nation. Here is the cast of the War Production Boa...

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Bantam, Connecticut. Sheet metal foreman at the Warren McArthur plant is John Scott, who formerly worked in Bridgeport at United Aircraft's Sikorsky plant. The Scotts are one of the four honeymoon couples in the new defense homes project a few minutes' walk from the factory. He kept company with the present Mrs. Scott, a former office worker in New Haven, for seven years before they were married

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Dehydration. Potatoes. Blanched potatoes move off the conveyor belt of a steam blancher at the Western Regional Research Laboratory in Albany, California. After four to five minutes in the blancher the vegetables are ready to be placed in the dehydrator

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Baltimore, Maryland. Eighteen hundred workers are carried from the Bethlehem Fairfield shipyard to Baltimore on a former Wilson Line pleasure boat. The trip takes twenty minutes

Baltimore, Maryland. Eighteen hundred workers are carried from the Bet...

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Oswego, New York. Blood donor clinic held for several days in the Elks' Club. There were 1,000 volunteers, and the Red Cross handled ten every fifteen minutes

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San Bernardino, California. Precooling Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad refrigerator cars at the ice plant. Precooling lasts from four to eight hours depending upon the shippers request. Air at twenty degrees Farenheit is blown in one end and out the other. This action is reversed every fifteen minutes. 1000 cubic feet of air goes through the car per minute

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