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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Overall view of a conveyor assembly line at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, showing B-17F fuselages going through and, at right, sectional fuselage jigs in which fuselage halves are assembled from prefabricated parts. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

No more hot air in Congress. Washington, D.C., June 17. Two million cubic feet of clean, cool air is delivered to members of Congress each minute by a $3,500,000 air conditioning plant, part of which is shown above. The plant supplies the entire Capitol and the Senate and the new and old House Office buildings, 6/17/38

McWane Cast Iron Pipe Company, Pipe Casting Area, 1201 Vanderbilt Road, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

Wiessner Brewery, 1700 North Gay Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be 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

[The cannon hold on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Kinkora Works, Steel & Rolling Mills, Roebling, Burlington County, NJ

A black and white photo of a factory, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Overall view of a conveyor assembly line at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, showing B-17F fuselages going through and, at right, sectional fuselage jigs in which fuselage halves are assembled from prefabricated parts. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This milling machine formerly used in producing metal furniture for doll houses, has a much more important task these days. It's scraping steel plate to be used in bomb dies. Location: a small factory, somewhere in the middle west. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in a small Midwest factory is handling dies for use in producing incendiary bombs. The company, which formerly made doll's furniture, is now operating under subcontract for war production Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destroy the Axis. The owner of this small Midwest factory inspects dies for making incendiary bombs. Note doll's furniture on the wall, the company's previous product. Complete conversion of all machines for this factory's production of war essentials is rapidly taking place. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Today, busy with subcontracts on war production orders, they're hurrying the last lengths of swatter-wire off the machines. Circular machines at right cuts and twists the lengths of wire. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Owner and foreman of this small Midwest factory check final pieces of doll's metal furniture before the shop is given over entirely to war production. In foreground are tools and dies which made the toys. All of the equipment will be converted to production of incendiary bomb fixtures. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Founded in 1900, this small Midwest machine shop is busy today with defense work. Note overhead power-driven belts, which, though obsolete, are still producing full speed ahead. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

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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

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to Haifa. Bent Furniture Factory in Holon Settlement. Process of bending wood after steaming

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve center of civilian defense communications. A message center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city by telephone and radio. A vital part of civilian defense work is the proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squad, one with the disaster unit and another with the emergency service division. Girls shown at work in the message center of central alarm system, Washington, D.C.

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in a small Midwest factory is handling dies for use in producing incendiary bombs. The company, which formerly made doll's furniture, is now operating under subcontract for war production Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Torpedo boats need veneer of Philippine mahogany, which will be cut from these slabs, or flitches. A sling-load of quarter flitches being lowered into a heating vat in preparation for knife slicing at a Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the hiring of women workers in war industries is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant embodies the reasons for this change of heart. With no previous industrial experience, she mastered the operation of this compressed-air machine in record time, and is now polishing airplane motor parts with speed and skill

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

Production. Naval gun mounts. The chassis of a large naval gun mount nears completion as workmen of a Midwest machine shop perform final scraping and fitting operations. Westinghouse, Louisville

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Loading antiaircraft cartridge cases into a stress-annealing furnace to make them soft, uniform and ductile, ready for succeeding machine operations. The equipment possessed by this big Midwest plant was well suited for producing these cases in large volume

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Today, busy with subcontracts on war production orders, they're hurrying the last lengths of swatter-wire off the machines. Circular machines at right cuts and twists the lengths of wire. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

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