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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Instructor John Wanelik, of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey, shows Veronica Stephens how to grind a stripping angle on a cartridge drawing die. A number of young women are being trained for war production jobs in this shop
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Credit lineSubcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Instructor John Wanelik, of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey, shows Veronica Stephens how to grind a stripping angle on a cartridge drawing d. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Liberman, Howard. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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