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Franklin Roosevelt Visiting the Allis Chalmers Plant
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Presidential Tour - Series IV. Official party views women at work in Allis Chalmers factory.President Franklin D. Roosevelt is looking through rear window while Governor Julius Heil, Wisconsin applauds. Walter Geist, Allis Chalmers president, seated near President, with James White, Allis Chalmers works manager in the front seat.Surprise censored visit which the press were allowed to report in early October, by the N.Y. Times.
September 19, 1942
New York times
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Tours the Allis-Chalmers Plant
1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant.
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