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A man sitting at a table with stacks of coins. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Casting a billet from an electric furnace. Modern electric furnaces have helped considerably in speeding the production of brass and other copper alloys for national defense. Here the molten metal is poured or cast from the tilted furnace into a cylindrical mold to form a billet. The billet later is worked into rods, tubes, wires or special shapes for a variety of defense uses. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. When "slabs" (brass or copper castings in the form of long flat cakes) are cast, the upper end of the casting, the last part poured, is apt to be slightly blown and drossy. This end is cut off by large shears before the casting is sent to the mill to be fabricated into sheet metal. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of an oven. Office of War Information Photograph

A large warehouse filled with lots of metal pipes. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. In the brass and copper casting shop, the operator of an electric furnace is pouring the molten metal into molds to form shells, or rough tubes, which are later formed into finished tubes. Tubes are formed by casting molten metal into these molds in which a refractory core has been inserted. The molds are mounted on a turntable, which brings them into position to receive the pouring. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. This picture shows brass rod coming from the extrusion machine. Red hot brass billets (solid cylindrical castings) are pushed by tremendous force through a steel die in the extrusion press to form rods of various shapes, or hollow shells that are subsequently made into tubing. The metal is ejected from the extrusion press like tooth paste from a tube. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Not King Midas counting out his money, but an inspector in a cartridge case shop examining cartridge case blanks or discs for flaws in metal structure. Any flaws in the blanks can be easily detected in the freshly- cut edges after they are wiped clean. These circular blanks, which are cut on a press from heavy sheet brass, are drawn and formed into shell cases. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Dams under construction. Watts Bar Dam, shown here under construction, has a semi-outdoors type powerhouse with an enormous gantry crane (to the right of the picture) for installation and removal of units. The project is further distinguished by a control building which is entirely removed from the hydro plant, being located some 120 feet higher on top of a steep cliff and with direct connection to the switchyard behind. The windowless left wing of the control building houses the control room; the tower-like structure in the back accomodates air conditioning, restrooms, etc. The glass wall, upper level, contains the reception room with a broad semi-circular overlook terrace, the story below the terrace devoted to offices

Spring Hill College, Main Building, Old Shell Road, Spring Hill, Mobile County, AL

Construction. Construction of unidentified structure V

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are produced by a series of operations that transform a flat brass disc into a case ready for loading with propelling charge and shell. Between each operation there is careful washing to remove all scale and adhesion and to leave surfaces clean for later processing. The big Midwest plant doing the work is well equipped to handle it in stride

Scovill Brass Works, 59 Mill Street, Waterbury, New Haven County, CT

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed lengths of seamless copper tube in many sizes. These have still to go through several more draws through dies on drawbenches. Each draw reduces them in diameter and wall thickness, and lengthens them out. Then, before the tubes leaves the mill, the ends will be sawed off straight and clean. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Construction of a railroad engine. Boiler shell

Gerber Sheet Metal Works Building, 128 Porthand Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. Shell plates of a ship at the bow, where the inner plates are first bolted to the outer plates for added strength. The rivets are countersunk to be flush on the outer side. Production scene in a large Eastern shipyard. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

[Hole made by 500 lb. Japanese shell and building wrecked by its fragments, Port Arthur]

Spring Hill College, Main Building, Old Shell Road, Spring Hill, Mobile County, AL

The Gov't Printing Office in Wash. is busy filling an order for 15,000,000 instruction and application blanks to be used by the veterans of the world war in applying for their bonus. The blanks are being issued at the rate of 2,000,000 per day for which Uncle Sam purchased 11,000 reams of paper

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ohio cuyahoga county euclid nitrate negatives conversion copper brass midas money inspector cartridge case shop cartridge case shop blanks cartridge case blanks discs flaws structure freshly edges press sheet sheet brass shell cases shell cases chase chase copper company brass company farm security administration oregon united states history library of congress