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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1652985, member: 6986&quot;]Things seem a little slow so I will show one of the more esoteric items in the collection . . .</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/Jan45S.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When a strike threatened to shut down Montgomery Ward and its delivery of material essential for the war, President Roosevelt issued emergency orders removing the company chairman from office and putting the operation of certain parts of the company in the hands of the War Department.&nbsp; Below is a picture of the chairman Sewell Avery being removed from his office by the Army.&nbsp;&nbsp; Refund checks from the War Department were printed and issued from January to October 1945.&nbsp; I have identified 16 different types of checks including variations based on paper type, signatures and letter codes.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/worl_war_2_sewell_avery_zpsb549148a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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