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Title: Refinery produces super gas
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photo shows part of the new $12,000,000 refinery of the General Petroleum Corp. at Torrance. The new plant is producing the sensational super 100-octane aviation gasoline for Uncle Sam's air forces. Photo dated: January 15, 1944.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037055
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998.
CARL0000040062
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12036
Subject: Sharikah al-?A¯mmah lil-Batru¯l
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