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Automobile salvage. Pieces of the auto that are too long for the steel mill's charging box are cut one at a time to short lengths in a powerful motor driven shear. These electric shears split a fender as easily as a scissors cuts fabric

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Automobile salvage. Pieces of the auto that are too long for the steel mill's charging box are cut one at a time to short lengths in a powerful motor driven shear. These electric shears split a fender as easily as a scissors cuts fabric

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Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Perlitch, William, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

38.88868, -77.00472

Google Map of 38.888684, -77.00471900000002

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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Public Domain