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• Manufacture of self-sealing gas tanks, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Electronics technician, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Formerly an aircraft dock, this huge building -- thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports -- is now the scene of many busy shops turning out aircraft sub-assembly parts, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio. Either new housing clos

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• Busy stacks give evidence of all-out war production effort at a plant of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Akron, Ohio (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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• This sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant is now ready for drying, B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Synthetic rubber made by the "ameripol" process is derived from butadiene (a petroleum derivative). In this rolling mill the c

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  • Date taken: 1939
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