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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. War production knows no age. An elderly and a young employee of an Eastern manufacturing concern, now converted to production of precision tools and brass quadrants, jig-bore a bullet die. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York
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Credit lineConversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. War production knows no age. An elderly and a young employee of an Eastern manufacturing concern, now converted to production of precision tools and brass quadr. 1942-01-01. Gruber, Edward, United States. Office For Emergency Management. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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