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Production. M-4 tanks. Arthur Hale, tool maker with the American Locomotive Company for forty years, operates a milling machine making reamers for production of combat tanks in the company's Schenectady, New York shops. Mr. Hale has developed a successful plan for saving time and tool steel by annea
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Credit lineProduction. M-4 tanks. Arthur Hale, tool maker with the American Locomotive Company for forty years, operates a milling machine making reamers for production of combat tanks in the company's Schenecta. 1943-01-01. 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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