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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. When "slabs" (brass or copper castings in the form of long flat cakes) are being passed rolls, the first step in making sheet metal. A series of passes back and forth through various rolls reduces the "slabs" to thickness desired. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric by the xylos process. Firestone

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

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

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

Cambria Iron Company, Blacksmith Shop, Lower Works, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

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

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

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric by the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Reclaimed rubber in the making. Dried scrap rubber, reclaimed at a large Midwest plant, is discharged from a continuous belt dryer and collected for an operation on the mill rolls. The procedure is known as the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Reclaimed rubber in the making. Dried scrap rubber, reclaimed at a large Midwest plant, is discharged from a continuous belt dryer and collected for an operation on the mill rolls. The procedure is known as the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber from old tires. Salvaged rubber, in the form of small pieces, passes over dewatering screens after it leaves the wash tanks. The pieces are secured by dissolving the fabric from gold casings cut into small sections after renewal of bead portions. The process, known as the xylos process, is employed in a large Midwest rubber plant. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric by the xylos process. Firestone

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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

Headed for last cleanup. Six giant truck tires, of the non-directional type are being wheeled in for cleaning and painting. This pattern, developed for the U.S. Army in 1941 is used for field equipment....gives excellent traction in forward or reverse because of the horizontal cleats, yet rides well on the highway on the continuous center rib. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Now may again breaks winter's chain

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Black beads hung between the breasts are good for heart trouble

Young Eph's lament, or Oh, whar will I go if dis war breaks de country up

Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Joseph Teshon, Inc. plant manager examines fabric sample in his office.

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

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

Self-sealing fuel tanks. Not only as nurses behind the battle lines, but as workers in the factory producing important war goods, women are doing much to win this war and to spare the lives of the men doing the actual fighting. These girls are stitching inner ply to a building form used in the manufacture of self-sealing tanks. Goodrich

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