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Look at the lighting in the first three photographs. Palmer really understood the theatre of the scene he was photographing. The first photograph, an inanimate object picturing an elemental force, brings me to tears when looking at it. Too sentimental, too emotional? Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Many thankx to the Library of Congress for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. No known copyright restrictions on any of the photographs.

Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a mold to form a billet. Alfred Palmer American, North American Aviation drill operator in the control surface department assembling horizontal stabilizer section of an airplane.

Alfred Palmer American, Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. Alfred Palmer American, Young woman employee of North American Aviation working over the landing gear mechanism of a P fighter plane. Inglewood, California. Alfred Palmer American, An experimental scale model of the B plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of the North American Aviation, Inc. Dr Marcus Bunyan is an Australian artist and writer.

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At the same time, the construction of wings for Grumman and Lockheed corporate jets continued. In the last twenty-five years, Avco manufactured parts of the space shuttle, wings for various U. Its employee rolls reached the seven thousand predicted at the outbreak of World War II.

Textron Inc. The factory sold again in to the Washington, D. As the stakes change, at least part of the pattern has remained the same. Nashville left the depression and believed in the possibilities of growth and forward movement as an urban area and the South as a new industrial area because of the arrival of companies such as Aviation Corporation in the mid-twentieth century. All Rights Reserved.