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Manpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Shoemaker has worked at this same vertical boring mill for the past fifty-four years. The boring mill, built in 1865, made pump parts in the last year of the Civil War, and worked through the Spanish-American War and World War I. In
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Credit lineManpower. Veteran boring mill worker. Seventy-five-year-old George Shoemaker has worked at this same vertical boring mill for the past fifty-four years. The boring mill, built in 1865, made pump parts. 1942-01-01. United States. Office For Emergency Management, Liberman, Howard. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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