Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A worker guides the magnet which unloads steel scrap from open freight cars to the waiting charging boxes in a Chicago steel mill. Drawn by an engine, these boxes will be brought directly to the furnace room, where they will be processed into steel for guns and ships
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- 1942-10
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- Related Names: United States. Office of War Information.
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