Life, April 2, 1945
Life, April 9, 1945
The only thing better than liquor and firearms is liquor and heavy machinery.
Life, August 21, 1944
Grinding machine equipped with fine abrasive plate gives rough balls smooth finish as they are spun at high speed.
Life, July 13, 1942
ABOVE: Hiwasse is set like a small jewel in the gorge of a mountain tributary. Here the woods have turned a faint spring green and the dogwood is not quite full-blown, while over the distant Smokies hangs the familiar haze of the southern highlands.
BELOW: The machines work ceaselessly at Douglas, racing to close the dam in time to impound next spring’s rains. For them there are no shifts. Twenty-four hours a day the cranes lift and wheel, the drills pound, and the cat-wagons slog over the river bottom.
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