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Wind Wheel (recto); Landscape with Weather Vane (verso)

Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880–1946 Huntington, New York)

Spinning wheel used by a rehabilitation client, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

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[Man standing at wheel of ship, facing left, taken during Bahamas recording expedition]

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WAR VICTIMS RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT. PRESIDENT AND MRS. ROOSEVELT STAND ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN AS A STREAM OF WOUNDED VETERANS, SOME IN WHEEL CHAIRS, SOME ON CRUTCHES, PASS THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FOR A WORD OF GREETING. FROM THE LEFT: MRS. ROOSEVELT, THE PRESIDENT, AND CAPT. WILSON BROWN, WHITE HOUSE NAVAL AIDE. THE VETERAN IS ONE OF THE MANY WHO PASSED. DURING THIS PARTY GIVEN WOUNDED SOLDIERS, THE PATMAN BONUS BILL ARRIVED AT THE WHITE HOUSE. EARLIER IN THE DAY, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SENT OUT WORD THAT HE WOULD VETO IT

A man in a wheelchair shaking hands with a woman in a dress. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The sun sets on a broken wagon wheel, symbolic of the vain efforts to farm on the dry arid land of central Oregon

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Interior of gristmill. Turbine wheel type. On Daddys Creek. On road between Pikeville and Crossville, Tennessee

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Isaac Pierce Mill. Close-up of wheel of Isaac Pierce Mill

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Interior of gristmill. Turbine wheel type. On Daddys Creek. On the road between Pikeville and Crossville, Tennessee

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Rural mail box on old wagon wheel. Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri

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Mail boxes on wheel near Wallingford, Iowa

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Weaving on wall by Churchill weavers, Berea, Kentucky; weavin on wall by Spinning Wheel, Asheville, North Carolina; copper plate from society of Connecticut draftsmen; pottery base with handles from Piedmont section of North Carolina; bean pot from New Hampshire; bowls from Jugtown pottery, Steeds, North Carolina; figure and chickens from Hilton pottery,

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A brief cloudburst buries a wagon wheel to the axle as water erosion strips barren grazing land. On the Idaho land use project

Traffic paint undergoes rigid tests. Washington, D.C., April 16. At the U.S. Bureau of Standards, J.E. Keefauver of the Bureau has been running tests on the paint that is placed on safety zones and streets to determine which has the best wearing activity. The discs [?] are painted with the traffic paint the chain-driven wheel of eraser rubber (to imitate an auto tire) slowly wears the paint away. The brushes are to keep the disc and tire clean. These tests were made at the requests of the traffic bureaus, 4/16/1937

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Maurice E. Nahurias with 37-inch can at Pelton Water Wheel Company. Cooksey 29-14, January 1, 1937. [Photographer: Donald Cooksey]

Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Captain of tugboat at the wheel, lower Mississippi River

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Setting up ferris wheel at state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana

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Old auto wheel and tire with front axle assemblies, near Abbeville, Louisiana, junkyard

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A black and white photo of a control panel, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

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Beans caught in wheel of spraying plane. These planes must fly so low that their backwash turns the plants over while the spray settles. The small propeller behind the wheel spreads the "dust." Seabrook Farms, between Bridgeton and Vineland, New Jersey

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More

Instruments in wheel house of El Rito, barometer, thermometer, and fog horn, Louisiana

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Miniature pearl White House to presented to nation. Washington, D.C., June 11, 38. A miniature White House, made entirely of pearl shell and completely equipped with tiny reproductions of presidential furniture, was placed on view at the Willard Hotel today by group of prominent Washington club women. The replica is a gift of a New York art collector to the wheel of progress, National Womens Society, in recognition of its pariotic projects. Viewing the model are, left to right: Mrs. Florence Caroline Maxwell Ramsey, and Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, president general of the wheel of progress, 61138

A group of people standing around a cake, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Genera More

A black and white photo of a man on a boat, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

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Frances B. Johnston's car and Huntley [Ruff] at the Wheel Inn, Morganton, N.C.

Photo shows Huntely Ruff who drove the photographer Frances B. Johnston while she documented historic buildings for the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnsto More

Wheel house of U.S. Engineer's tug

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Operator of ferris wheel resting at county fair in central Ohio

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Frances B. Johnston at the Wheel Inn, Morganton, N.C.

Photo shows the photographer Frances B. Johnston standing with her luggage by the car she rode in to document historic buildings for the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. Forms part of: Frances More

Oysterman at wheel of boat, Bivalve, New Jersey

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A black and white photo of a man on a boat. War Production FSA/OWI Photograph

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Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. A wheel, over which the car cable runs, at the top of a shaft tower at the Maple Hill mine

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Miniature pearl White House to presented to nation. Washington, D.C., June 11, 38. A miniature White House, made entirely of pearl shell and completely equipped with tiny reproductions of presidential furniture, was placed on view at the Willard Hotel today by group of prominent Washington club women. The replica is a gift of a New York art collector to the wheel of progress, National Womens Society, in recognition of its pariotic projects. Viewing the model are, left to right: Mrs. Florence Caroline Maxwell Ramsey, and Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, president general of the wheel of progress, 6/11/38

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Spinning wheel in attic. Cajun farm home, Crowley, Louisiana

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. "Elicana Lewin" stone works. Cutting marble slabs with emery wheel, close up

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Day laborer putting front wheel onto tractor, large farm near Ralls, Texas

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Day laborer pushing wheel onto tractor, large farm near Ralls, Texas

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Mr. Germeroth, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, at wheel of tractor which he bought with FSA loan. Sheridan County, Kansas

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Day laborer at wheel of tractor on large farm near Ralls, Texas

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Workman climbing on top of streetcar to change wheel on trolley. Streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Ferris wheel, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa

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On the ferris wheel at the Vermont state fair, Rutland

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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R.

A black and white photo of a man and two children. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

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Tightening the rear wheel on truck which will carry migrant family to California from Muskogee, Oklahoma

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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Son of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client going through gate made of old wagon wheel. Farm near Bradford, Vermont, Orange County

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Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. "Elicana Lewin" stone works. Cutting marble slabs with emery wheel

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Day laborer tightening bearing on front wheel of tractor, farm near Ralls, Texas

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Clarence C. Carlton, prez. of Motor Wheel Corp. test filed before National Economic Committee, 1/19/39

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Worker replacing wheel in end of streetcar. Terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Day laborer testing play on front wheel bearing of tractor, farm near Ralls, Texas

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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R

12002-4. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi More

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R.

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Ferris wheel and amusements at carnival, Bozeman, Montana

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Son of day laborer resting on a wheel barrow, McIntosh County, Oklahoma

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A nose wheel and landing gear assembly for a B-25 bomber under construction in a western aircraft plant, North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. A front section of the plane shows in the background. General Doolittle has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1,700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane.

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Monopoly Committee told price of auto wheels reduced 20 per cent in last five years. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Clarence C. Carlton, President of the Motor Wheel Corp. of Detroit, today told the Monopoly Committee that the patent system had engendered competitive conditions in the auto industry and lowered the cost of the product. He said, for example, that the cost of wheels had been reduced 20 percent during the last five years, 1/20/39

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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in shape. Santa Fe R.R

12002-4. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi More

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Haifa. The "Kadar" Ltd. Ceramics. Fashioning of a jar on the potters wheel, close up

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Inspecting of landing wheel of the transport planes at Willow Run

Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Migrant steeple-jack removing the crank case from his automobile while his father blocks up the front wheel. Near Prague, Oklahoma. When he secures a job, the entire family, consisting of his father and mother, wife and sister, all help with the painting

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Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in shape. Santa Fe R.R.

Celebrates 77th birthday. Washington, D.C., Feb. 3. His looks belying his age. Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds today celebrated his 77th birthday. He pictured at the wheel of his auto leaving home for the Supreme Court Chamber, 2-3-39

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Beersheba, one of the Wells of Abraham, surmounted with irrigation wheel

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Wheel of fortune. Las Vegas, Nevada

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Second operation in wheel and tire assembly, inserting the locking ring by means of which the tire is secured to the wheel

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Beersheba, one of the Wells of Abraham, surmounted with irrigation wheel

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Beersheba, one of the Wells of Abraham, surmounted with irrigation wheel

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Galilee trip. Nazareth. A potter at work, showing table & wheel

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant replenishment now that M-3 tanks have reached a mass production schedule. These are wheel suspension lever forgings, stored outside the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit where 10,000 workers are turning out twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals for the Army

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant replenishment now that M-3 tanks have reached a mass production schedule. These are wheel suspension lever forgings, stored outside the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit where 10,000 workers are turning out 28 ton rolling arsenals for the Army

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Negro farmer onloading much-repaired wagon wheel at the blacksmith shop where he hopes it can again be made serviceable. Depew, Oklahoma

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Cable supports of aerial tramway leading through wheel house. Abandoned mill in San Juan County, Colorado

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Homemade tractor made of old Lincoln car which is now lifting power for hay stacker. Ouray County, Colorado

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl More

Iowa farm boy at tractor wheel. Harrison County, Iowa

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Dining table in Navajo Lodge, Datil, New Mexico. The center of the table which is raised is mounted on an old wagon wheel hub and revolves with the food before those seated around the table. The wheel above the table in olden days supported a hanging lamp. Now it is fitted with electicity

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Blacksmith with wagon wheel hub and spokes. Depew, Oklahoma

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Ticket seller at ferris wheel at Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). First operation in the process of tire and wheel assembly. The workman shown above is putting the tube and flap inside the casing of the type of tire with which all Dodge Army trucks are equipped

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A man is spinning a spinning wheel in a field, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se More

Wheel of borax [i.e., lumber] wagon made from cross section of redwood tree. Death Valley, California

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Galilee trip. Nazareth. A potter at work, showing table & wheel

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Second operation in wheel and tire assembly, inserting the locking ring by means of which the tire is secured to the wheel

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Negro farmer rolling much-repaired wagon wheel into blacksmith shop to see if it can again be repaired. Depew, Oklahoma

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A black and white photo of a spinning wheel, Arkansas. Farmers during Great Depression.

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se More

Beersheba, one of the Wells of Abraham, surmounted with irrigation wheel

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Wagon wheel used as decoration in adobe house. Penasco, New Mexico

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Detroit workmen assembling the front axle of a Dodge four wheel drive U.S. Army truck. In this operation the front driving axle is put in place and the drive shaft hooked up with the transfer case

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Row upon row of wheel hubs and brake drums for Army trucks tower skyward in huge piles at the Dodge company's great truck plant in Detroit

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Hjørdis Andersen spant det tynneste garnet.

Gold prospector shoveling dirt and rocks into wheel barrow. He will run this through the dry washer called a "papago" of old Indian design. Pinos Altos, New Mexico

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The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

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Greaser in wheel house in main tower, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

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Farm boys getting on the ferris wheel, one of the attractions at the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon

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Greaser in wheel house in main tower, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

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Control wheel in seed mill. Ontario, Oregon

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Detail of construction of front wheel of combine. Walla Walla County, Washington

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Centering fabric on the drum. The fabric layer is slipped onto the drum, layer upon layer, by the use of a rod forced between the last layer applied and the one being applied while the wheel is spinning. This rod stretches the new fabric sufficiently to permit the loop to fit snugly in place--clear on the carcass. After the fabric is in approximate position, the tire builder checks it for accuracy by stopping the wheel, bending the overhanging edges over to see that they each overhang the same distance. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa More

As the track for an Army halftrac develops to recognizable form on the "building wheel" of an Ohio tire plant, an important operation is performed by trained men. All rubber of the finished halftrac adheres firmly to steel bodies. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

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Centering fabric on the drum. The fabric layer is slipped onto the drum, layer upon layer, by the use of a rod forced between the last layer applied and the one being applied while the wheel is spinning. This rod stretches the new fabric sufficiently to permit the loop to fit snugly in place--clear on the carcass. After the fabric is in approximate position, the tire builder checks it for accuracy by stopping the wheel, bending the overhanging edges over to see that they each overhang the same distance. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

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No chances are taken with the quality of wheel castings for the Army's new halftrac scout cars. This workman in an Ohio truck plant is putting the castings through an inspection routine that will weed out the weak sisters. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

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Mounting a wheel on a halftrac scout car is made as simple a job as possible. The soldier in the field won't have the uniform working conditions of the man on an Ohio assembly line, but the tire mounting job is the same. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

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