1964 Press Photo John A. Hill & E.S. Twining Jr., groundbreaking Michoud Plant

John A. Hill, left, president of Air Reduction Co. Inc., of New York, confers with E.S. Twining Jr., manager of the Air Reduction Sales Co., which began construction today of an $8 million plant near NASA's rocket booster production center at Michoud. Ground Broken For $8 Million Michoud Plant. City and state officials joined today in ground-breaking for an $8 million liquid oxygen-nitrogen plant at Michoud, termed the largest air separation facility in the world.

Photo is dated 1964.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.