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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Sheets of finished stainless steel on their way to the warehouse and shipping rooms. All stainless steel for defense production is subject to rigorous inspection before acceptance

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. The production of many tons of high quality steel depends on the efficiency with which this electrician installs the power lines to new transformers used in conjunction with electric furnaces

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Robert Poster, crane inspector at the Allegheny-Ludlum plant

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Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy. Workers ramming in the bottom of a new thirty-five ton electric melting furnace which two days later was placed in operation to produce steel alloys from scrap iron and steel. This plant is being expanded at record speed to keep up with the even increasing needs of the national defense production program. Allegheny Ludlum, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Peering through the peephole of a 25-ton electric furnace in which high quality alloy steels are being refined. Only with dark heavy glasses can melters study the action of the boiling alloy steels and determine whether adjustments are necessary to the electric power, or whether additional material must be added to prevent too rapid oxidation

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. A ribbon of hot steel rolls forth from high hot rolling mill, where it has been pressed down from about six to two inches in thickness. These ribbons are about thirty-five inches wide, and are used in coils or in cut lengths

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These inspectors are trained to look for even the slightest imperfection in sheets of stainless such as this. All the high quality steel steel used in defense production is inspected and thrown back into the furnaces in case of any imperfection

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the men upon whom depends the success of our effort to produce for the boys in uniform. He is a steel mill maintenance man on his way to repair a breakdown. It's his job to see to it that nothing interferes with our defense production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive. The furnace is tiled for the pourings. The flying sparks indicate the fluidity of the steel

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is semi-finished material for finishing in steel mills and strip mills. The piles of rectangular pieces in the foreground are for steel mill production, while the coils behind them are destined for the strip mill where they will be converted into thin gauge strips

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. The production of many tons of high quality steel depend upon the efficiency with which this electrician installs the power lines to new transformers used in conjunction with electric furnaces

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. To the left is a portion of the panels containing metering devices and to record the operations of generators such as this, which power a rolling mill

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Into the charging boxes goes this carload of scrap metal. Steel mills operating at capacity cannot afford to run short of these precious bits of cast away metal. The charging boxes foreground, will carry the scrap to the furnace for remelting

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Lost heat is lost power, lost time and lost money. Furnaces for remelting and refining high quality steels and alloys are lined with refractory bricks such as these, made to withstand and to "reflect" terrific heat

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. A slab of stainless is about to enter a three-high 110 inch plate mill, just having been removed from a heating furnace. This mill will roll the slab to produce the finish, thickness, width and length required for its use as tank armor

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Testing is an integral part of the work at the steel mills. Thousands of dollars worth of amazingly accuarate testing machinery will be found in every mill, testing tensile strength, elastic limit, elongation and reduction of area. All steel is thoroughly tested before it is shipped out for defense production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Space is a prime requisite for a steel plant. The huge production machinery itself and the various tools for treatment of the steel after it has been refined may extend for acres. In the center here is the exit end of a plate mill. After the plates are hot-rolled and released, they pass through the roller leveling device at the right, where they are flattened for commercial use

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is a row of charging boxes loaded with limestone, the main ingrediant in the production of quality steel. These boxes will shortly dump their loads into open hearth furnaces

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pile of scrap collected from various roadside junkheaps for re-use by the steel mills producing for defense. Soon it will be loaded into open hearth and other types of furnaces to be used in the production of new steel for defense industry. Nearly forty percent of the steel produced comes from scrap metals

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Shine your sheets, mister! This machine is used to polish the surface of stainless, to make it smooth and bright and clean. This is just one of the many units of special equipment required for the production of high quality steel for our defense needs

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Scrap from areas near the steel mill is delivered by motor truck. The melting of alloy steel for defense production necessitates constant delivery of scrap iron and steel to the mills. The overhead magnet will deposit the steel in a loader, which then carries it to an open hearth or electric furnace. In the neighborhood of forty percent of all steel produced comes from scrap metal

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It's the end of a short episode for this scrap steel accumulated from the croppings of tubing and piping right in the steel mill. This scrap will be charged into steel converters once again, and again will emerge as refined steel for industrial production. Steel mills themselves provide large portions of the scrap metal needed for production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This slab of stainless steel is being rolled by a three-high 100 inch plate mill to bring it to the proper length, finish, thickness and width. It will eventually be used as tank armor

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is one of the huge seventy-two inch mills used to produce smooth, bright cold-rolled finish on steel sheets. The two highly polished center rolls are reinforced by heavier rollers to assure uniform reduction in the thickness of the sheet. These mills are used in the production of high quality steel

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Pig iron such as this is a major ingredient of steel. Blast furnaces have smelted down the iron ore to obtain the pig iron used in all three types of steel furnaces: open hearth, Bessemer converter, and electric

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. No lumberyard this! These are billets of stainless steel, ready to through the hot rolling mills to be pressed into strips. The chipping and grinding on the surfaces of these billets is designed to remove all contamination and defects, so that the steel may meet the high quality requirements of being able to resist corrosion

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This sheet mill worker is charging sheets of steel into the heating furnace, from which they will emerge to be rolled into thin gauge sheets

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Plant railways are essential to the working of large steel mills, especially since single furnaces are often charged with as much as 100 tons and more of raw materials for conversion into steel

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive, just a pile of rock. Well, that's what it is, a pile of limestone, but since limestone is the main ingredient for the refining of high quality steels, heaps of rock such as these are mighty important factors in the maintenace of defense production. Here workers are loading the pigs into charging boxes, which will carry them into the open hearth furnace for melting

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This slab of stainless steel is being rolled by a three-high 100 inch plate mill to bring it to the proper length, finish, thickness and width

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Ladling it out! These workers are casting ingots from the ladle into which a thirty-five ton electric furnace has just poured its molten steel. The "hot tops" allow for shrinkage of the steel in the ingots bodies. If these should be any slag left in the molten steel, it will rise into these hot tops, since slag is lighter than the steel

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This is a four-high hot rolling mill, which reduces hot steel into ribbons about thirty-five inches wide, to be used either in coils or cut lengths. The steel enters the first of these electrically driven rollers at a thickness of about six inches and emerges, three times as fast, from the fourth only about two inches thick

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. It won't be long now! Here's a pile of scrap collected from various roadside junkheaps for re-use by the steel mills producing for defense. Soon it will be loaded into open hearth and other types of furnaces to be used in the production of new steel for defense industry. Nearly forty percent of the steel produced comes from scrap metals

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive, just a pile of rock. Well, that's what it is, a pile of limesone, but since limestone is the main ingredient for the refining of high quality steels, heaps of rock such as these mighty important factors in the maintenance of defense production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Here is a billet of alloy steel entering a mill in which it will be converted into the desired shape. It will emerge as a bar, perhaps round, perhaps square, and will eventually find its way into one of thousands of uses to which steel is put in our defense production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Steel couplings such as these are used to extend short lengths of pipe for many miles. Steel piping is used to convey solutions and gases in numerous plants engaged in defense production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This man is determined that there be no halt in production because of electrical power difficulties. He's a steel mill electrician, and his job is tremendously important in the maintenance of maximum efficiency throughout all the various processes of steel production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. A rigid schedule, though they don't cover much ground. These men operate a locomotive inside the plant grounds, hauling scrap and other ingredients to the open hearth and electric furnaces for melting and refining

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This quality steel tubing and piping will eventually be used to convey, refine or distill elements used in defense production. Expensive alloy steels are used, particularly for chemical piping. Special alloys have been devised to resist specific chemicals

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. These newly cast steel gear blanks will be used in new machinery for the refining and manufacturing of iron and steel. High quality alloys are needed for the machinery to produce steel

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive. The furnace is tiled for the pourings. The flying sparks indicate the fluidity of the steel

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A poster comes to life. Blown up almost to life-size, photographs of the soldier, welder and sailor are pasted on cardboard. The poster of "Men Working Together" which actually brought these three men typical of their specific groups together thus begins to take shape. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Conservation scrap iron and steel. Industrial scrap is carefully conserved for re-use. These gear blanks are part of the maintenance supplies pile at a large steel plant. They will be used to replace worn parts on rolling mill equipment or possibly remelted with other scrap. Allegheny Ludlum. Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. Searching for just the right faces to use for a war poster, an Office of War Information (OWI) artist selects three photographs, one of a soldier, a sailor and a welder, and gets to work on the first rough layout of "Men Working Together." Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. "Meet the guys who shoot 'em." George Woolslayer introduces a group of open-hearth furnace men to his poster pals, Evans and Vineyard, who are getting a first-hand view of production for war. Although they knew how to shoot guns and drive jeeps before they came to Allegheny-Ludlum, they're seeing for the first time the kind of Americans who make these things: skilled and semi-skilled workers, tireless men who can work for hours in terrific heat. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. K.P. was nothing like this, thinks Sergeant Vineyard, squinting against the scorching air which rises from the forging of a crane hook. Steel worker George Woolslayer (right) tells the Sergeant how his fellow workers go about the forging of implements of war in a blacksmith shop at Allegheny-Ludlum. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel

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A poster comes to life. Meet an American soldier of Production. George Woolslayer, thirty-two-years-old, is an experienced welder at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's steel mills. His uniform is a pair of overalls and a welder's mask. Not reveille but a battered alarm clock awakens him six days a week at 6 A.M. There are no service stripes on those welder's sleeves he wears, but his part in the winning of this war is as important as any front-line soldier's. George Woolslayer is out to win the battle of the home front, the battle to keep America's soldiers on the fighting front supplied with the weapons of war. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. A mill train chugs through one of the Allegheny-Ludlum's mill yards, drawing carloads of vital scrap iron and steel which will be shovelled into open-hearth furnaces and remade into alloy. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. The roar of blast furnaces and the whistles of mill yard trains beat a rhythmic accompaniment to the words of Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans who spoke to a group of steelworkers at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's plants. At this informal gathering in the mill yard, the servicemen acknowledged their debt to the men at forge and furnace, men without whose work victory would be impossible

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A poster comes to life. Background: the raw materials. Foreground: the men who mould and use them. Composite result: winning a war. The three men are shown in the scrap yards of a plant of Allegheny-Ludlum. In that heap in the background, incidentally, may be that old bedspring or stove cover that you gave to the boy scouts a few weeks ago. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. Picture of a soldier learning something about his gun. Sergeant French L. Vineyard, on furlough to meet his comrades of the "Men Working Together" poster, watches the heat treatment of steel tubing at an Allegheny-Ludlum mill. He's always though that gun of his "just growed--like Topsy." Now his hat is off to the skilled workers and intricate machines whose roles in the winning of this war are as vital as his own. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. These piles of iron and steel collected from Uncle Sam's salvage drive are fast "getting in the scrap." Steelworker George Woolslayer shows Chief John Evans (left) and Sergeant French Vineyard one of the scrap yards at Allegheny- Ludlum where tons of old metal await loading into open-hearth furnaces. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. On the bridge of the "SS Production" at Allegheny-Ludlum, Sergeant Vineyard, welder George Woolslayer and Aviation-radio Chief John Evans watch the ceaseless chain of ladles brimming with molten steel on the furnace floor below. Chief Evans has been in the Navy for twelve long years but had never had a view like this from any bridge

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A poster comes to life. Sergeant Vineyard gets a first-hand introduction to steel in the making and finds it a fascinating experience. With Woolslayer, he's watching the fierce while lights and flickering shadows of an electric furnace in one of Allegheny-Ludlum's plants

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A poster comes to life. Long awaited by Woolslayer, he celebrated the visit of the soldier and sailor with a party at his home. Friends, relatives and fellow workers made up the list of guests. No ordinary party, this one will be remembered by the Woolslayers for years to come. Festivities started at 8 p.m. and lasted well into the next morning. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. The letter that started the ball rolling: welder George Woolslayer writes the Office of War Information (OWI) asking for information about his two poster colleagues. "I want to tell you that it makes me quite proud to be part of a war poster," wrote Woolslayer. "Can you let me have the name of the soldier and sailor. I feel I'd like to know them..." Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. "I know now where we get the stuff for battleships and guns--and even radio parts. And with men like you producing this stuff we need and backing us up, we can't lose this war." Chief Evans speaks to the steelworkers on his visit to an Allegheny-Ludlum mill. Touring the plant, Evans got his initiation into a new battlefront where weapons for the Army and Navy are forged. Welder Woolslayer (standing left) and Sergeant Vineyard stand by after the assistant plant superintendent (seated) introduced Evans to the audience. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. "Never got so close to one of these babies before" says George Woolslayer (right) giving an army jeep the once-over. At the post where Sergeant French L. Vineyard (center) is stationed, Woolslayer learned a great many things about army operations. Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (left) got a few pointers himself during this tour of the camp which was arranged after the servicemen had visited Woolslayer's steel mill. The three colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster found that they actually must "work together" for the successful waging of the war. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. Squinting against the terrific glare and bursts of steam charging up from a strip of red-hot steel which moves slowly past them, Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans pause with welder Woolslayer to watch precious river, which comes off the blooming mill and rolls toward the four-high strip mill at Allegheny-Ludlum. They're learning a lot, these servicemen of the "Men Working Together" poster, learning how their lives depend on the production workers of the country, without whose skill and strength the weapons of war could not be forged. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. Sergeant Vineyard gets a first-hand introduction to steel in the making and finds it a fascinating experience. With Woolslayer, he's watching the fierce while lights and flickering shadows of an electric furnace in one of Allegheny-Ludlum's plants

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A poster comes to life. Sergeant Vineyard knows a lot about howitzers and anti-aircraft guns but he'd never seen a machine like this giant trip-hammer until he visited an Allegheny-Ludlum steel mill. A skilled worker at the mill explains the shaping of steel for armaments to the Sergeant, whose appreciation for the fine art of steelmaking grows by the minute. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. It takes a heap o' treatin' to make a ship's hull out of scrap metal. Soldier, welder and sailor watch this giant four-high machine at Allegheny-Ludlum which rolls bloomed ingots into sheet steel. Thanks to welder George Woolslayer's explanations of the steel-making process, Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans are getting a liberal education in the fine art of production for war. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. "Up until my visit here I thought it was just the Army that was fighting this war." Speaking before the assembled steel workers at Allegheny-Ludlum, Sergeant Vineyard acknowledges the debt of the armed forces to the men "behind the men behind the guns." This meeting was arranged by the plant to welcome its guests and to give expression to the truth behind the "Men Working Together" poster

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A poster comes to life. "Meet the guys who shoot 'em." George Woolslayer introduces a group of open-hearth furnace men to his poster pals, Evans and Vineyard, who are getting a first-hand view of production for war. Although they knew how to shoot guns and drive jeeps before they came to Allegheny-Ludlum, they're seeing for the first time the kind of Americans who make these things: skilled and semi-skilled workers, tireless men who can work for hours in terrific heat. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. The lives of these men depends upon the others. Soldier, sailor and welder watch tireless steelworkers at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's mills as they shovel alloy materials into a fifty-ton electric furnace which produces high alloy steel for ships and guns. Thus the three who posed for the "Men Working Together" poster--soldier, sailor and welder--realize the truth of that brief sentence. Different as their roles are in this conflict, they are all working for victory together. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. Into this fifty-ton electric furnace at Allegheny-Ludlum, steelworkers load scrap materials which will be "cooked" into high alloy steel for America's ships and guns and tanks. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. Like liquid fire, molten steel is poured from an electric furnace into a ladle. When drawn, forged, treated and cast, this red river will be a tank, a ship's hull, or a hundred guns for men like Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans to use against the enemy. George Woolslayer, welder at Allegheny-Ludlum, explains this process in steel-making to the servicemen during their visit to the mill

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A poster comes to life. Carloads of limestone, iron and steel scrap, collected from Uncle Sam's salvage drive, soon to be made into new steel for the tools of war. Steelworker George Woolslayer escorts Sergeant Vineyard (left) and Chief Evans through one of the scrap yards at Allegheny-Ludlum, explaining to the servicemen that these carloads await loading into open-hearth furnaces at the mill. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. A reciprocal engagement is carried out at Sergeant Vineyard's army post, where welder George Woolslayer and Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (right) learn about life in the Army. Woolslayer was invited to the post after he had shown the servicemen through the steel mill where he works. In this way, the colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster learned about one another, and gained new respect for the part each plays in the war against the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. With a shower of fiery sparks, molten steel flows from a fifty-ton electric furnace at the Allegheny-Ludlum mill into a waiting ladle below. This is the vital liquid metal from which guns, ships and tanks are made. Allegheny-Ludlum, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. K.P. was nothing like this, thinks Sergeant Vineyard, squinting against the scorching air which rises from the forging of a crane hook. Steel worker George Woolslayer (right) tells the Sergeant how his fellow workers go about the forging of implements of war in a blacksmith shop at Allegheny-Ludlum. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel

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A poster comes to life. Two soldiers learn about each other's contribution to the war effort in the shadow of one of the nation's roaring steel furnaces. Sergeant French Vinyard tells this Allegheny-Ludlum electrician about life in the Army and learns in turn what it takes to turn out the weapons of victory on the industrial battlefront. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. "Never got so close to one of these babies before" says George Woolslayer (right) giving an army jeep the once-over. At the post where Sergeant French L. Vineyard (center) is stationed, Woolslayer learned a great many things about army operations. Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (left) got a few pointers himself during this tour of the camp which was arranged after the servicemen had visited Woolslayer's steel mill. The three colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster found that they actually must "work together" for the successful waging of the war. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. They're working together, these three Americans whose roles in the war effort are equally important and interdependent. Radio-aviation Chief John Marshall Evans, steelworker George Woolslayer and Sergeant French L. Vineyard watch the roaring steel furnaces in an Allegheny-Ludlum mill and realize that in truth they are "Men Working Together" for victory; soldier and sailor dependent on steelworker for the weapons of war, and worker dependent on the armed forces for the preservation of his life and liberty. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. The roar of blast furnaces and the whistles of mill yard trains beat a rhythmic accompaniment to the words of Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans who spoke to a group of steelworkers at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's plants. At this informal gathering in the mill yard, the servicemen acknowledged their debt to the men at forge and furnace, men without whose work victory would be impossible

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A poster comes to life. The middle man in the poster looks at his image mounted on a wall at Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation, wonders what the other two fellows are like, and where they are these days. George Woolslayer, thirty-two-year-old welder, was chosen as a model for this poster when an Office of War Information photographer visited the plant in the fall of 1941. His interest in the soldier and sailor prompted him to write OWI (Office of War Information) asking for information on the servicemen. Result: furloughs wer obtained for the two, who came to the steel mill and saw that "Men Working Together" is the formula by which American soldiers, sailors and workers will win this war. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. Sergeant French L. Vineyard, welder George Woolslayer, and Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans pose before the poster which has made their faces nationally known. The poster before which they stand is displayed in a plant of the Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation where Woolslayer works

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A poster comes to life. "You may be eatin' something that comes through these pipes one of these days," said George Woolslayer as he showed Sergeant Vineyard a pole of stainless steel seamless tubing stacked up and awaiting shipment. The tubing is used in food manufacturing plants, chemical plants, and in numerous other operations where a corrosion-resistant tubing is important. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. Long awaited by Woolslayer, he celebrated the visit of the soldier and sailor with a party at his home. Friends, relatives and fellow workers made up the list of guests. No ordinary party, this one will be remembered by the Woolslayers for years to come. Festivities started at 8 p.m. and lasted well into the next morning. Proudly seated on Sergeant Vineyard's knee is Woolslayer's eight-year-old daughter, Georgia Ann, who stayed up long past her bedtime to take part in the fun. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. A reciprocal engagement is carried out at Sergeant Vineyard's army post, where welder George Woolslayer and Aviation-radio Chief John Marshall Evans (right) learn about life in the Army. Woolslayer was invited to the post after he had shown the servicemen through the steel mill where he works. In this way, the colleagues of the "Men Working Together" poster learned about one another, and gained new respect for the part each plays in the war against the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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A poster comes to life. With a shower of fiery sparks, molten steel flows from a fifty-ton electric furnace at the Allegheny-Ludlum mill into a waiting ladle below. This is the vital liquid metal from which guns, ships and tanks are made. Allegheny-Ludlum, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. Meet an American soldier of Production. George Woolslayer, thirty-two-years-old, is an experienced welder at one of Allegheny-Ludlum's steel mills. His uniform is a pair of overalls and a welder's mask. Not reveille but a battered alarm clock awakens him six days a week at 6 A.M. There are no service stripes on those welder's sleeves he wears, but his part in the winning of this war is as important as any front-line soldier's. George Woolslayer is out to win the battle of the home front, the battle to keep America's soldiers on the fighting front supplied with the weapons of war. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh

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A poster comes to life. Almost dwarfed by the ladle which pours molten steel into ingot molds below, Sergeant Vineyard, George Woolslayer and Chief Evans stand in awe of the giant machine which processes steel into armaments. Woolslayer sums it up like this: "We're making the stuff for you to fight with to protect us." Thus America's men and her machines work together for victory. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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