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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. "Strong alloy" aluminum ingots, approximately six inches square, are loaded into the heating furnace where they are heated to 800 degree Fahrenheit before rolling operations

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Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. "Strong alloy" aluminum ingots, approximately six inches square, are loaded into the heating furnace where they are heated to 800 degree Fahrenheit before rolling operations

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Ingots of "strong alloy" aluminum go through a rolling mill at a temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Ingots of "strong alloy" aluminum go through a rolling mill at a temperature of 800 degrees Fahrenheit

Aluminum casting. Ingots of aluminum, rejected for slight imperfection are shoveled back into a furnace to be recast. Here a worker is puddling the 2,000-pound rotary furnace. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. Ingots of aluminum, rejected for slight imperfection are shoveled back into a furnace to be recast. Here a worker is puddling the 2,000-pound rotary furnace. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Alloys Company. At the hot mill where the aluminum slab is first rolled into a sheet

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Safely factors are not forgotten in rush orders for war production. This worker who handles hot ingots in the rolling mill, wears these size fifteen aluminum toe guards to protect his feet

Aluminum casting. A new development in the production of war materials involves use of magnesium. Here a young worker in a large Midwest foundry takes temperature readings of molten magnesium alloy through the protective crust. At the same time he is sprinkling flux to prevent burning at the hole in the crust after removal of the thermocouple. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Coils of sheet aluminum which will soon be stamped into powder cans

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. "Strong alloy" aluminum ingots, approximately six inches square, are loaded into the heating furnace where they are heated to 800 degree Fahrenheit before rolling operations

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01/01/1941
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Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Benj. Strong Jr. - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Hill of bauxite

Aluminum casting. One of the skilled workers in an aluminum foundry pictured ramming the drag side of a sand mold. This foundry is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Sheffield, Alabama. Reynolds Metal Company. Mr. Giles, research director, with apparatus for determining the amount of pure aluminum in various oxides produced during the process of producing aluminum pigs

Casting ingots from copper at a Phelps Dodge refining company plant

Las Vegas, Nevada. Enormous asbestos mittens are worn by the worker handling the hot magnesium ingots produced at the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Quality in the manufacture of steel requires constant control and research. This chemist is weighing the elements of a steel alloy to determine its exact composition. Analysis is determined to 1/1000 of 1 percent of each element in the alloy

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Molten aluminum spills like quicksilver from this homemade bucket-sized ladle and pours white-hot into a mold to cast experimental parts for bombers in Clayton's foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. Foundry foreman R.G. Campbell watches the color of the pour from the left. J.L. Clayton, city fireman, who built the foundry as a hobby, is pouring with the aid of his Negro helper

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