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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multi-spindle screw machine that formerly worked on cash register parts now performs a first operation on 37mm M-54 high explosive shells. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio
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Credit lineConversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multi-spindle screw machine that formerly worked on cash register parts now performs a first operation on 37mm M-54 high explosive shells. National Cash . 1942-01-01. Palmer, Alfred T.. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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