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Feiner wins Individual Production Merit Certificate. Samuel Mayer Feiner (left), Certificate of Individual Production Merit winner from San Francisco, California, explains his prize-winning suggestion to William E. Warne, acting chief of War Production Drive Headquarters in Washington. Feiner, 50-year old American citizen of Polish birth, devised an elbow-edging machine which tripled the production of elbows at the Bethlehem Steel Company's shipbuilding division. It saves over 1,000 man hours monthly. Feiner was one of 22 men throughout the nation who received certificates in the September judging by the Board for Individual Awards of the War Production Drive Headquarters
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Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor.
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 2140.
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district of columbia
washington dc
safety film negatives
lot 1950
george danor
alfred t palmer
photo
individual production merit
war production drive headquarters
citations
first five citations
production costs
five war workers
office of war information
farm security administration
united states history
library of congress
politics and government
detroit michigan
Date
01/01/1942
Location
district of columbia
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain