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Feiner wins Individual Production Merit Certificate. Samuel Mayer Feiner (left), Certificate of Individual Production Merit winner from San Francisco, California, explains his prize-winning suggestion to William E. Warne, acting chief of War Production Drive Headquarters in Washington. Feiner, 50-year old American citizen of Polish birth, devised an elbow-edging machine which tripled the production of elbows at the Bethlehem Steel Company's shipbuilding division. It saves over 1,000 man hours monthly. Feiner was one of 22 men throughout the nation who received certificates in the September judging by the Board for Individual Awards of the War Production Drive Headquarters