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In 1960 a chocolate works took in raw beans by the sack, roasted them, cracked and winnowed them, ground the nib, ran the result in a conche for…
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In 1960 toys were painted with finishes that contained lead, pressed from tinplate with cut edges left exposed, moulded on machines the operator reached into, and sold with…
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In 1960 a great many buttons were cut out of freshwater mussel shell with a hollow drill under water, then ground, drilled, polished and sorted by hand into…
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In 1960 a knife blade was forged, then ground by a man lying forward over a spinning sandstone wheel with his face close to the work, then hafted…
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In 1960 a furniture factory held a year of timber in its own yard waiting to dry, cut real joints by machine and fitted them by hand, laid…
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In 1960 a cement works quarried its own limestone next door, blasted it on a schedule the district learned to recognise, and burned it in a rotating steel…