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Production. Aircraft engines. That little instrument Verna Lampy is welding looks and sounds a lot like the drill your third bicuspid may be familiar with. It's used in a huge Midwest aircraft plant, however, to etch serial and inspection numbers on airplane motor parts, making a permanent record to
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Credit lineProduction. Aircraft engines. That little instrument Verna Lampy is welding looks and sounds a lot like the drill your third bicuspid may be familiar with. It's used in a huge Midwest aircraft plant, . 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Rosener, Ann. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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