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De Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to this heap, picked out the right metal and made what they needed on the spot
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Credit lineDe Land pool. La Roe shop. The La Roe "stock" room at Eustis, Florida. When the La Roes needed high-speed steel for dies and tools in tooling up their little garage workshop, they just walked over to . 1942-01-01. Hollem, Howard R., United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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