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Jalopies for defense. It won't be an auto body for long now. Here it is being placed in a powerful hydraulic baling press, soon to emerge as a small cube of tightly compressed metal. The steel is bundled in this way not alone to facilitate shipment but also, and more important, to prevent the burnin
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Jalopies for defense. It won't be an auto body for long now. Here it is being placed in a powerful hydraulic baling press, soon to emerge as a small cube of tightly compressed metal. The steel is bundled in this way not alone to facilitate shipment but also, and more important, to prevent the burnin

United States. Office For Emergency Management · 1941-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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Credit lineJalopies for defense. It won't be an auto body for long now. Here it is being placed in a powerful hydraulic baling press, soon to emerge as a small cube of tightly compressed metal. The steel is bund. 1941-01-01. United States. Office For Emergency Management. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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