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Experience de la machine areostatique

Vue d'optique shows the Montgolfier brothers' balloon, "The Globe," ascending from Champ de Mars, Paris, France, August 27, 1783. Caption (French): Experience de la machine aréostatique de Mrs. de Montgolfier d More

A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ; engrav'd by Sorrow., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a man chained to wedlock carrying a woman on his back, her breasts exposed, she holds a cup labeled "gin" and toasts "My Bucks Health", and according to a pig in a pen, "She is as Drunk as David's S More

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er decembre 1783

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. ( More

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert faite a Paris dans le parterre du Jardin royal des Thuilleries le I. decembre 1783. Vue prise du Pont Royal / / Prevost fecit.

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati More

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert faite a Paris dans le parterre du Jardin royal des Thuilleries le I. decembre 1783. Vue prise du Pont Royal.

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati More

Expérience du globe aërostatique du MM. les freres Robert au Jardin des Thuileries

Print shows Anne-Jean and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, September 19, 1784, accompanied by Colin Hulin. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staf More

Sola experientia vera medicamina docet. Tis only experience that teaches proper remedies

Man seated on toilet holding candle. Behind him is a witch wearing queen's cape, looking at book and holding wand. Behind her are 2 Chinese? men holding candles, a man wearing a cape and holding sword, and 3 Ch More

3ème et dernière expérience de descente en parachute par Melle. Garnerin, au Champ de Mars, dimanche 21 avril, a son profit

Broadside announcing the final parachute jump at Champ-de-Mars, Paris, April 21, by Elisa Garnerin, who made many parachute descents between 1815 and 1836. Includes two pictures of parachutes. Tissandier collection.

Nouvelle expérience de Mlle. Élisa Garnerin. Avis.

Broadside announcing a parachute jump at Rouen, France, by Elisa Garnerin, who made many parachute descents between 1815 and 1836. Includes two pictures of parachutes. "Nota. La gravure qui représente la grand More

Religious experience ... Newburyport. Printed by W. & J. Gilman, 9 State-Street [n. d.].

Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 80, Folder 18.

Experience aërostatique faite à Lyon; d'un ballon de cent pieds de diamètre le 10 [i.e. 19] janvier 1784, à midi 48 min[u]tes

Print shows the balloon, "Le Flesselles" ascending over Lyon, France, on January 19, 1784, carrying seven passengers including Joseph Montgolfier and Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC More

Expérience du parachûte. Le 1er Brumaire an 6 (22 octobre 1797. v.f.) à 5h. 28m. du soir, le citoyen Garnerin, s'éleva à ballon perdu au parc de Monceau ... / Simon Petit, peintre, del. sculp.

Print shows André Jacques Garnerin, first man to descend in a parachute, standing in the gondola of his parachute waving a French flag after release from his balloon (shown deflated at left). His balloon had as More

Éxperience du globe ae̋rostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er decembre 1783

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S More

Why McKinley was a mason. War time experience led him to join the lodge at Winchester. [n. d.].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 134, Folder 25.

The Union carpet cleaning Co. using the original "Harris machine," with such improvements as experience has suggested, solicit your orders for clearning carpets ... Boston, May 8, 1861.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 67, Folder 18.

The attractive element of Asiatic cholera, with the experience of Mrs. Marion Churchill, in 1832. Boston, February 14, 1866.

On verso: 177. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 72, Folder 1a.

Circular. To the bondholders and creditors of the City of Alexandria, Virginia. Experience having demonstrated that the city of Alexandria is utterly unable to pay the interest on the municipal debt ... has appointed a committee to call a meetin

Gift Mrs. Pauline Wilcox Burke. 6-14-46.; Rec. 8-16-46.; On verso : Gift Pauline Wilesx Burke June 14, 1946 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and More

A drummer's experience in a country village

Composite of humorous scenes of a traveling salesman in a country village: his arrival; sleeping in a crude hotel; bad manners at a boarding-house breakfast; political discussion in barber shop; leaving town wi More

Arènes du sport aéronautique sous la direction de Eugène Godard, aîné, lundi de Paques, 6 avril 1885, à 2 heures. Experience publique de navigation aérienne, système A. Brisson (Breveté S.G.D.G.) ...

Broadside announcing an aeronautics exhibition organized under the direction of balloonist Eugene Godard and held in Paris in 1885. Includes picture of the balloon "L'Avenir" equipped with two separate passenge More

Grande expérience aérienne par MM Thibault, Gourier & W. de Fonvielle esplanade des invalides dimanche 28 juin 1885 a 2 heures.

Balloon in upper left corner identified as "Bolide" and parachute in center identified as "Coelus." Bella C. Landauer collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1.

An experienced performer : Ring-master Platt--Now Chauncey, have you ever had any experience with an elephant before, sir? Clown-- No, sir, but I had a great deal of experience with a mule once

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's weekly, 32:440 (June 16, 1888).

Rebel prison experience, by H. Boaze, late sergeant Co. E. 44th Indian Vol. Inf. Taken in action at Stone River, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862. Old Libby. Neenah, Wis. Blair & Huie, printers [c. 1891].

Title.; Verse.; On verso, copy 1and 2: {stamp} MAR 8 1922. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ep More

The latest unfortunate experience of an unfortunate animal / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows a "Before" and "After" cartoon: in the "Before" scene, the "Democratic Donkey" is piled high with bags of "Dividends, Salaries, Profits, [and] Rents" that are tied on with a ribbon labeled "Income T More

"Let children learn through experience to be strong and manly," - Pres. Roosevelt, St. Paul, Minn.

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Monopoly witness, Dr. Lubin. Washington, D.C., Dec. 4. Dr. Isadore Lubin, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, appeared before the Monopoly Committee today. He said that a period of rising prices and 'painful economic readjustment' is in prospect as a result of the European war. 'The experience of the past 100 years, ' Lubin said, 'has demonstrated repeatedly that major wars bring tremendous changes in prices and have far reaching effect upon the structure of industry and upon the entire economy. Senator Borah presided in the absence of Senator O'Mahoney

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Relating an experience, Native Americans

Two Navajo Indians and horse. 196377 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph copyrighted by Pennington (William M.) and Rowland (Wesley R.), 1914.

Miss Gail Laughlin, of Portland, member of the Maine Legislature and National Vice President of the National Woman's Party, who will preside at the national Convention of the National Woman's Party in Colorado Spring July 7th to 10th, and will be the chief speaker on the Speakers' Train leaving Washington en route for the convention July 3rd. Miss Laughlin will speak at Chicago, Kansas City, Topeka and Denver. Miss Laughlin, former National President of the Business and Professional Women's Clubs, has lived in California, where she was Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party, and in Colorado, where she likewise was very active. Miss Laughlin has had wide experience speaking for feminism and wider opportunities for women in practically every state in the Union.

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Gail Laughlin, facing forward, high lace collar. Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 3, no. 23 (Ju More

For patriotic agricultural service--wanted at once, men and boys who have had actual farm experience [...]

Poster showing small scenes of ploughing and a military camp, with extensive text soliciting agricultural workers and offering assistance to farmers. New York State Food Supply Commission, Albany, N.Y. Includes More

Profit sharing plan must be 'extra' to wages, senate committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 21. Richard R. Deupree, President of Proctor and Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, today told the Senate Finance Subcommittee that his firm's profit-sharing system has exercised important influences in maintaining amicable labor relations for 50 years. He agreed, however, that the profit-sharing plan must be extra to a steady job, Deupree told the Committee that in his experience the plan was conducive to thrift and home ownership, and that 99 per cent of the employees eligible participated in the plan

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In spotlight at National Aviation Forum. Washington, D.C., May 27. General George C. Marshall, center, U.S. Chief of Staff, today told the National Aviation Forum that more than emotion will be required [to] produce 50,000 warplanes a year. He said that World War aviation experience indicates the need for careful, calm, and coordinated planning. He is shown with Thomas Morgan, left, President of the Sperry Gyroscope Corp., and Thomas Beck, President of the Crowell Publishing Co., and Chairman of the Forum

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Demountable employee housing.This brand new type of housing accommodation was developed through several intermediate steps and experiments in prefabrication, in answer to the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority's) need for housing for temporary use on construction projects in remote localities. The scheme permits fabrication at a distance from the job (about 600 miles in this instance), thus reducing dependence on overtaxed accommodations at the construction project. After completion of the project, the demountable housing is quickly removed elsewhere. Some of the earlier TVA demountables have been moved three times from project to project. The design shown here is particularly light in weight due to full use of the recently developed stressed-skin system of plywood construction. It is built largely of weatherproof plywood. The large bay across the front greatly enhances the size of the living room. The trailer houses, on the basis of experience to date, are entirely competitive in cost with traditionally constructed housing of the same floor area. On account of being constructed in shops rather than in the field, they are produced with much closer tolerances, considerably better finish, and with equipment designed and constructed with greater detail and superior utilization of space

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New York Mayor advocates giving control of commercial aviation to 100. Washington, D.C., April 12. Appearing before the Senate Interstate Subcommittee today, New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia advocated enactment of the McCarran Bill to transfer control over commercial aviation from the Department of Commerce to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Mayor said: "the 100 has had a generation of experience and has been very successful in promoting safety in railroad transportation" speaking the recent crash of an airliner near Pittsburgh, the Mayor said he believed there is "no doubt" that the crash was caused by "structural defects," 4/12/1937

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Judiciary Committee hears N.Y. Supreme Justice on proposed Court reform plan. Washington, D.C., March 20. Ferdinand Pecora (left) New York Supreme Court Justice and former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that he favored the president's plan for reorganization of the Judiciary. Pecora drew upon his experience as an investigator for the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to outline a broad situation which he said required the President's program as a solution. He is shown with Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, 3/20/1937

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A Hepburn is new CIO aide. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. Marian Hepburn, 19-year-old sister of Katherine the stage and movie star, has just taken a job with the United Federal Workers of America, a union of government employees affiliated with the CIO. Miss Hepburn is now in her third year at Bennington College, Vermont, taking up the study of labor, government and sociology which might explain why she is working for FWA. She is to resume her studies on February 20 at which time she will write on what she has learned from practical experience, 1/8/38

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Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes, Corpus Christi, Texas. As an NYA trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A large portion of the 10,000 skilled workers turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit have spent years in the employ of the Chrysler company. They have learned the precision methods needed for automobile production, and their past experience is invaluable for work on the tanks which will make our new Army the equal of any in the world in mechanized power. This worker is turning and facing a cupola ring

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Production. M-4 tanks. Cannon and front turret armored plate are lowered into place on an M-4 tank. Machine guns have already been installed and the General Sherman will be ready for the test track. Designed by the Army Ordnance Department and built under ordnance supervision, the M-4 embodies new advances in design based on battlefront experience. Cast steel construction of the hull expedites production

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Shopping for victory with war bonds. This is what one war bond buys. This is the celebrated fishing kit with which every Navy lifeboat is equipped. Experience of Eddie Rickenbacker and others showed how these kits could provide the means of saving lives at sea. The $18.75 that buys a $25 war bond will pay for three of these kits

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Civilian protection. Nurses' aides and medical corps personnel turn out for drill. These two groups make up the personnel of stretcher bearers, first aid squads, casualty clearance stations, and first aid posts. Both are also assigned to hospital work in a rigorous course of training and hospital experience which is necessary to become members of their groups

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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

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Experience in gas-welding light metal frames for an Eastern window screen manufacturer was an valuable asset to many employees when the company began producing navigator windows for American bombers

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. No time out for eating on an overtime job. Making bomb sights comes easy to him, for he has had long experience in precision work at a commercial Kentucky watch case factory now entirely on a war production basis. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

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Bantam, Connecticut. Norman Randall, right, bucks Alec Wasdo's rivets in a sub-assembly shop at the Warren McArthur aircraft seat plant. Randall is a native of Patchogue, Long Island, who came to Bantam from Lowell, Massachusetts, where he learned sheet metal work. He came to Bantam in the fall of 1941, and in December married a girl from Goshen, Connecticut, ten miles from Bantam. They are one of the four couples who honeymooned in the new defense homes project in Bantam. Alec Wasdo began work at Warren McArthur at the same time as Randall, but he drives to work from his former home in Waterbury. Wasdo was formerly a bartender, with no previous experience at factory work. He's already decided he prefers it to tending bar

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High school Victory Corps. Donald Polz is one of many students at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland who are helping to relieve the manpower shortage in his community. He attends school in the morning, works at a local bakery in the afternoon. His employment is part of the school directed program originally designed to provide work experience for the students

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thirty-two years experience as a machinist, Fred W. Casey, sub-contractor in the De Land, Florida pool, bends over a heavy lathe as it machines a part for the nation's war machine. Fifty-two-year-old Casey, like many machinists who retired to Florida, chuckles at the idea that machinists in the deep South cannot work to close tolerances

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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen point to 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe operators, despite her lack of previous industrial experience. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this young woman machines parts of aircraft engines. Like many other young Negro girls, she had known only

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High school Victory Corps. Harry R. Smith is one of many students at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland who are helping to relieve the manpower shortage in his community. He attends school in the morning, works at the country engineer's office in the afternoon. His employment is part of the school directed program, originally designed to provide work experience for the students

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Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being done by these women cutoff machine operators who are processing small machine parts in a Midwest drill and tool plant. Although this work is relatively unskilled, industrial experience was new to most of the women, many of whom had previously been waitresses, schoolteachers, or saleswomen. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Commander of a Negro tank crew in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The hard, steady routine of war exercises at this post is changing men with little or no previous experience into competent tank crew members, infantrymen and specialists in the manifold tasks of the Engineer Corps

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Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. Tough soldiers all. The men of this light tank crew, in training near Fort Knox, Kentucky, are getting the experience and the hardening needed to break the Axis

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Production. Subchasers. One of the eighteen grandchildren is now in the Army, and granddad himself is doing important work for the Navy. His skill and experience are invaluable in the Eastern shipyard in which he helps to make keels and other important frame members for new subchasers

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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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Production. Minesweepers. Planing down a keel section for one of Uncle Sam's new minesweepers. The experience which this carpenter gained in house construction comes in handy in the shipyard where he is now employed. Gibbs Cass Company

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam, twenty-one-year-old Eunice Hancock, erstwhile five-and-ten-cent store employee, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft motor plant. With no previous experience, Eunice quickly mastered the techniques of her war job and today is turning out motor parts with speed and skill. Note protective mask and visor, two vital safety accessories

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Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-two-year-old Anne Weinmen, employee of a large Midwest aircraft factory, inspects pistons to be used in airplane engines. With several years experience in Midwestern plants behind her, Miss Weinmen has developed the patience and dexterity this work requires. Melrose Park, Buick plant

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Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. A million dollar baby, not in terms of money but in her value to Uncle Sam, twenty-one-year-old Eunice Hancock, erstwhile five-and-ten-cent store employee, operates a compressed-air grinder in a Midwest aircraft motor plant. With no previous experience, Eunice quickly mastered the techniques of her war job and today is turning out motor parts with speed and skill. Note protective mask and visor, two vital safety accessories

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Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright gives his skill and experience to the building of subchasers in an Eastern shipyard. He has helped to turn out many oyster and fishing boats, and worked at shipbuilding in the last war. He has done much to help his present employer earn the coveted Navy "E"

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Production. Subchasers. The foreman of the keel department of an Eastern shipyard does a final planing job on a timber for a new subchaser. He has been a shipbuilder all his life and is well known for the fishing boats he has turned out. He came out of retirement to give his skill and experience to a yard that had to train many green hands in a short time

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. The engineer, or "hog head" of a freight locomotive hauling materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam, oils the guides of the main driving rods of his engine. Long mechanical experience, practical railroad training and common sense are required for the job of running one of the big "hogs"

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Member of an all-Negro tank crew in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The hard, steady routine of war exercises at this post is changing men with little or no previous experience into competent tank crew members, infantrymen and specialists in the manifold tasks of the Engineer Corps

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Production. Subchasers. An old shipwright and a son who came up in the same trade inspect a timber that will be used in the keel of a new subchaser. The father had retired some years ago, but came back to give his skill and experience to an Eastern shipyard. He is now foreman of the keel department and the son is foreman of the mill department

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Production. Subchasers. This machinist's helper in a Southern shipyard now building subchasers learned his new shop duties so rapidly that he is credited as one of the men who helped the yard to earn the Navy "E." Like others in this shop, he had no previous experience in his present work

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Women in industry. Tool production. Pioneers of the production line, these two young workers are among the first women ever to operate a centerless grinder, a machine requiring both the knowledge of precision measuring instruments, and considerable experience and skill in setting up. In this Midwest drill and tool plant, manned almost exclusively by women, centerless grinders have been efficiently operated by women for more than a year, and company production figures have continued to soar. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

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Home economics students gain practical experience in food preparation in the lunch room at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

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Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. Pretty as her picture is this young woman in the trim uniform that enlisted U.S. Navy WAVES will wear this winter. The smartly styled, comfortable uniforms are in the traditional "Navy blue" with a soft rolled brim hat. Women between the ages twenty and thirty-six with a high school education or its business school equivalent are eligible, providing they meet physical and aptitude requirements. After training, they will receive rating and pay commensurate with their experience and ability. The pay, incidentally, will be exactly the same as that for men in the same rating, plus allowances. The Navy particularly desires women trained as general clerks, secretaries, stenographers, duplicating machine operators, typists, file clerks, bookkeepers, warehouse clerks, stock clerks, radio operators, teletype operators, simplex and multiplex operators. Some, too, will be trained as aviation machinists mates, gunner's mates and for torpedo maintenance

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. With no previous industrial experience, Thelma Lilly learned to operate this burring machine three months ago and today is working full-time on Y's for America's battleships of the air. Despite crippling effects of arrested tuberculosis of the spine, Miss Lilly is one of America's invaluable women "behind the men behind the guns." She's one of a group of physically handicapped women at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, working on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

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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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Production. Aircraft. Although the tiny part in this veteran's "mike" looks insignificant, its variation from perfection may mean a jammed gun, faulty landing gear, or stalled engine. This machinist in a large Western aircraft plant has had twenty-three years of experience. Craftsmen of his skill are at an all-time premium now

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Production. Aircraft engines. She used to be a librarian, now she inspects aircraft parts. Prior to Alma Jean Vincent's employment in a large Midwestern aircraft plant, she managed the junior book section of a suburban library. She had also been an assistant buyer of sportswear, but this lack of industrial experience seems to have been no handicap for her present job of visual gauge operator, inspecting airplane motor parts. With only six months of war work behind her, she's more than meeting plant requirements for speed and precision. Melrose Park, Buick plant

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Member of an all-Negro tank crew in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The hard, steady routine of war exercises at this post is changing men with little or no previous experience into competent tank crew members, infantrymen and specialists in the manifold tasks of the Engineer Corps

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Production. Aircraft engines. Negro women with no previous industrial experience are reconditioning used spark plugs in a large Midwest airplane plant. Despite their lack of technical knowlege, these women have become expert operators of the small testing machines. Melrose Park, Buick plant

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Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial experience, this young woman has taken over a delicate job in a large Midwest drill and tool company. Her part in America's war production consists of grinding small drills to a high tolerance on this clearance-grinding machine. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. An employee with years of experience at Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, explains the assembly of a horizontal stabilizer to a new woman employee. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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Women in industry. Tool production. The hum of whirling machinery accompanies the work of these women cut-off machine operators who are processing small machine parts in a Midwest drill and tool plant. Although this work is relatively unskilled, industrial experience was new to most of these women, many of whom had previously been waitresses, schoolteachers or saleswomen. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Member of an all-Negro tank crew in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The hard, steady routine of war exercises at this post is changing men with little or no previous experience into competent tank crew members, infantrymen and specialists in the manifold tasks of the Engineer Corps

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Navy planes must be mechanically perfect. Lloyd H. Brooknole (left), an experience sheet metal worker, repairs and assembles planes at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. A helper, Elmer J. Pace, is getting practical experience working with Brooknole. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

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Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-two-year-old Anne Weinmen, employee of a large Midwest aircraft factory, inspects pistons to be used in airplane engines. With several years experience in Midwestern plants behind her, Miss Weinmen has developed the patience and dexterity this work requires. Melrose Park, Buick plant

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. A combination of long mechanical experience, practical railroad training and common sense is required for the job of running one of the big "hogs," or locomotives. This engineer handles a train which hauls materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

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Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Negro tank crews. Commander of a Negro tank crew in training at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The hard, steady routine of war exercises at this post is changing men with little or no previous experience into competent tank crew members, infantrymen and specialists in the manifold tasks of the Engineer Corps

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Manpower. Southern shipyard workers. Leaning over his torch, this skilled worker brazes a joint in a section of copper tubing. Without previous experience in this field, this worker was trained in a short time for this operation in a Southern Navy yard

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Women in industry. Tool production. Pioneers of the production line, these two young workers are among the first women ever to operate a centerless grinder, a machine requiring both the knowledge of precision measuring instruments, and considerable experience and skill in setting up. In this Midwest drill and tool plant, manned almost exclusively by women, centerless grinders have been efficiently operated by women for more than a year, and company production figures have continued to soar. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

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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

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De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a total of 160 years of experience as skilled machinists. They are contributing this experience to the De Land, Florida production pool. Left to right: A.B. Kenyon, seventy, retired tool maker; William E. Mansfield, seventy-one, who made weapons and munitions for Winchester Arms in the first World War; and M.E. Carr, sixty-seven, owner of a plant which is sub-contracting aircraft work in the De Land pool

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back the production drive. A die maker in a converted Kentucky watch case factory brings rare ability to the plant's new job of making compass cases, fuse baffles, machine gun parts and other war essentials. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

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Fort Benning armored forces. An old type, light tank gives armored forces trainees at Fort Benning, Georgia their first experience with mechanized fighting equipment

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High school Victory Corps. This young soldier is one of many children cared for in the day nursery conducted by girls in the home economics course at Montgomery High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. The project, in addition to releasing Silver Spring housewives for war work, provides girls of the scholl's Victory Corps with practical experience in community service

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes. As an National Youth Administration (NYA) trainee, Elmer gets practical experience at the Corpus Christi naval air base in Texas. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker

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Conducting diet and nutrition experience on rats in the animal lab of the home economics department at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

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Women aircraft workers. Two Pearl Harbor widows work to defeat the Axis at a West Coast aircraft plnat. Mrs. Fern Evans, left and Mrs. Evelyn J. W. Casola work as a team on the riveting of radio support assemblies for bomber planes. Neither had previous mechanical experience prior to this job, but both are now successfully handling complicated mechanical jobs

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Production. Aircraft engines. Foreman F.I. Bowman shows Marietta Morgan how to operate this bomb-test machine used to test reconditioned spark plugs. A young Negro girl, Marietta, had formerly been a clerk in a meat market. Her lack of industrial experience, however, has been no handicap for her present war job in a large Midwest airplane plant. She's rapidly becoming a skilled and efficient machine operator. Melrose Park, Buick plant

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Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial experience, this young woman has taken over a delicate job in a large Midwest drill and tool company. Her part in America's war production consists of grinding small drills to a high tolerance on this clearance-grinding machine. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

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Production. Submarines. Gaining practical experience after months in the classroom, a young naval ensign confers with a foreman on the conning tower of a submarine under construction at Manitowoc, Wisconsin

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Boss of all the "shacks," or trainmen, on a freight or passenger run is the "skipper," or train conductor. His job demands practical railroad experience, executive ability and common sense. This freight conductor captains a train carrying materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. A combination of long mechanical experience, practical railroad training and common sense is required for the job of running one of the big "hogs," or locomotives. This engineer handles a train which hauls materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

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High school Victory Corps. Bill Brady is one of many students at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland who are helping to relieve the manpower shortage in his community. He attends school in the morning, works at a local machine shop in the afternoon. His employment is part of the school directed program originally designed to provide work experience for the students

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Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for work in February, now reads blueprints and is able to proceed with various accessory assemblies for bombers with little supervision from leadmen

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Washington, D.C. Sister Aquinas, "flying nun," applying a little glue to the model P-38 which hangs from the ceiling of her classroom at Catholic University. A veteran of fifteen years' teaching experience, the Sister is giving a summer Civil Aeronautics Authority course for instruction

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Preparation for point rationing. With an official as their guide, woman shopper and daughter get their first experience in using war ration book two in purchasing processed foods. Harold B. Rowe, director of Office of Price Administration's (OPA) Food Rationing Division, indicates the point values of various canned goods

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Saint Petersburg, Florida. Trainees receiving practical experience in the operation of machine shop tools

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Preparation for point rationing. An eager school boy gets his first experience in using war ration book two. With many parents engaged in war work, children are being taught the facts of point rationing for helping out in family marketing

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