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photo of McNutt with checks

Federal Security Agency Administrator, Paul McNutt, a former Indiana Governor and head of the agency of which the Social Security Board was a component, examines a batch of Social Security checks at the Treasury Disbursing Center in January 1940. The Treasury machines could generate 7,000 checks an hour in 1940.
 
 
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