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Albuquerque, New Mexico. Magnaflux inspector A.J. Fry at work on an engine wheel axle in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shop. The cable in his hand magnetizes the axle as he spreads steel dust over an area. He then cuts the current off and carefully blows the dust away. The steel particles remain, however in any tiny cracks and reveal any surface flaws that might exist. The axles of engine wheels are magnafluxed every 200,000 miles

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Elemental phosphorus. A section of a TVA plant in the Muscle Shoals area in which phosphorus is produced in its elemental form. The phosphorus, used in the manufacture of incendiary bombs and shells and of material for "smoke," is produced by smelting phosphate rock, coke, and silica together in electric furnaces and condensing the resulting phosphorus gases. When surplus phosphorus is available, it is converted into highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizer, much of which is shipped abroad under provisions of the Lend-Lease Bill

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Obtaining a sample of sulphur at a relay station

Empty cans are filled with peas and lids placed on them. Canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Empty cans are filled with peas and lids placed on them. Canning factory, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Machinist at a lathe in machine shop

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Obtaining a sample of sulphur at a relay station

Production. Tin smelting. Emptying bags of raw tin ore from South America on a conveyor which feeds the crusher of a Southern smelter. The crusher reduces the larger particles to uniform size and discharges ore ready for the first stages of the smelting operation. The plant is already producing large quantities of tin for the countless war needs of the United Nations. Additional processing units now being added assure a much heavier output in the near future

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texas galveston county texas city nitrate negatives production tin bags ore tin ore south america conveyor crusher southern smelter southern smelter particles uniform size uniform size discharges discharges ore stages first stages operation plant quantities war nations units output future farm security administration united nations 1940s united states history workers industrial history worker 1940 s library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Hollem, Howard R., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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label_outline Explore First Stages, Southern Smelter, Output

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

Production. Copper. A thickener at a large copper concentrator of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade & 22 Inf.), Texas City, Texas, 1914

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

Standard Lime & Stone Quarry, Primary Crusher, County Route 27, Millville, Jefferson County, WV

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Working on innerbottom units

Tennessee Valley Authority. Watts Bar Dam hydroelectric plant. One of four tube-generating units which produce electric power at TVA's Watts Bar steam plant. This plant will supplement the big hydroelectric installations at Watts Bar Dam, which has an authorized output of 90,000 kilowatts, and a possible ultimate of 150,000 kilowatts. Each of the four big turbo-generators in the steam plant is rated at 60,000 kilowatts

Mesabi Iron Company, Magnetic Concentration Plant, Crusher Building, Babbitt, St. Louis County, MN

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Filling bags with "942" at small hybrid seed plant. Marshall County, Iowa

Fort Riley, Kansas. Machine gun units of a reconnaissance outfit hurrying to set up their guns during a sham battle

Distributing pea vines on stack after they have been dropped by belt conveyor. Vinery at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

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texas galveston county texas city nitrate negatives production tin bags ore tin ore south america conveyor crusher southern smelter southern smelter particles uniform size uniform size discharges discharges ore stages first stages operation plant quantities war nations units output future farm security administration united nations 1940s united states history workers industrial history worker 1940 s library of congress