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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Older men are playing a more and more important part in war production. An elderly employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, turns out a heavy quota of sheet metal parts for war planes on a hand press at the Inglewood, California plant. This plant
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Credit lineProduction. Airplane manufacture, general. Older men are playing a more and more important part in war production. An elderly employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, turns out a heavy quota. 1942-01-01. United States. Office Of War Information, Palmer, Alfred T.. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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