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Conversion. Converters at one of the four butadiene units at the Institute plant at Institute, West Virginia, where the processing of grain alcohol to butadiene is stored

Conversion. Converters at one of the four butadiene units at the Insti...

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George Bernard Shaw's 3 act comedy "Captain Brassbound's conversion"

George Bernard Shaw's 3 act comedy "Captain Brassbound's conversion"

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" at the Hollywood Playhouse, Vine St. near Hollywood Bvld., Los Angeles, Calif., showing bust portrait of Bernard Shaw. Work P... More

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. A heated ingot of steel is removed from the soaking pit. In this pit ingots are thoroughly heated to the extremely high temperature required for conversion into slabs, billets or sheet bars for further conversion

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Last of the old order. A half-emptied box at a punch press holds the final batch of brass parts for women's compacts to be processed in a Kentucky watch case factory before complete conversion to war prodution. Note safety cords attached to operator's arms. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Last of the old order. A ha...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. His hair is white, but his eye is keen. Fifty years of precision work for a Kentucky watch case manufacturer, now converted to war production, gave this aritsan rare skill in developing fine dies for the arsenal of democracy. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. His hair is white, but his ...

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Conversion. Silverware plant. To meet Air Corps Ordnance specifications, this bomb shackle must be accurate to the 1/10,000th of an inch, and that's pretty tight measuring by anybody's standards. An employee of an Eastern plant which produced silver tableware in peacetimes, inspects the shackle aided by a surface height device. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. To meet Air Corps Ordnance specification...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Working far into the night, tool engineers and layout experts work on the complete conversion of the great automobile assembly plant to war work. The Plymouth Company, Chrylser Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Working far into the night, tool engi...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. Assembling a wing section of airplanes in a factory newly converted to airplane production. Automobile bodies were formerly made here

Conversion. Auto body plant. Assembling a wing section of airplanes in...

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Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large walnut slab, known as a flitch, is marked for the cutting out of sound planes for gunstocks. Light chalk marks indicate defects. Black marks are the outlines to which selected sections for "rifle furniture" will be cut. Because of knots, swirls, twisted grain and other faults, only a small percentage of the flitch can be used. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large wal...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. No more floor polishers will be produced by this small Eastern manufacturing company, whose entire resources are being converted to defense Production. Bench workers will henceforth be women, if the owner's plans are realized, so that his male operators can be released for heavy-duty machine work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. No more floor polishers will be produce...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A grinding operation on the breech of a machine gun for the Air Corps. The adaptability of grinding machines to this work helped speed the conversion of the auto factory which is now making these guns. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A grinding operation on the...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks guns such as those shown in the foreground is the present work of this lathe, formerly used in the production of cube steak machines in a New England plant which is now turning out a number of parts for war machinery on subcontract. Conversion of this machine, and the stepping up of its speed required only a few hours. The operator, Ralph Hutchings, has also turned his skill to war work. He formerly operated a lathe in the production of cube steak machinery. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks gun...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of Victory. In a factory which formerly manufactured safes and locks, Uncle Sam's armed forces are being provided with thirty-seven-millimeter guns and gun mounts to blast the Axis off the map. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Assembling the weapons of Victory. ...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. Here Allen is drilling bearing caps for cube steak machines. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

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Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. "Spanking," or forming the edge of a steel army helmet. This operation, performed on a medium-sized press in a converted auto radiator plant, is part of the process of making helmets from flat sheets of steel. McCool Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto radiators to army helmets. "Spanking," or forming th...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. Machines that once turned out hoods and fenders for the family sedan are undergoing transformation to accomodate a far more important product. This plant is being converted from automobile body manufacture to production of airplanes. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. Machines that once turned out hoods and f...

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Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A horizontal milling machine operator in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of paper machinery bores a hole in a jig used in the manufacture of airplane wing hinges. In addition to these jigs, the plant is also making open naval sights and other war essentials

Conversion. Paper machinery to plane wing parts. A horizontal milling ...

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. Bales of mosquito netting lie ready to be packed in crates for shipment to ordnance officers throughout the country. Women's hosiery was once the chief product of this Eastern mill which is now forty-percent converted to the production of netting for American troops. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Bales of mosquito netting lie ready to be...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. As extruded rod comes from the extrusion machine, it is too hot to handle. It is put under a cold water spray, then sent to the saws to be cut to shorter lengths for further operations. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. As extruded rod comes from th...

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Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Preliminary inspection of "flame arresters" in a former automobile plant. When finished, these "flame arresters" are attached to the nozzle end of a 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun to protect the firing crew. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Preliminary insp...

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. Permalon solution, a chemical mixture used on mosquito netting is mixed by a worker in a large Eastern mill which formerly made women's stockings. This chemical solution stiffens the netting and prevents subsequent shrinkage, so that the hardest tropical downpour which American armed forces may endure will not alter the netting

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Permalon solution, a chemical mixture use...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Little giants. Tiny fuse baffles, vital to victory, are produced for the Picatinny Arsenal in a Kentucky plant that formerly made watch cases. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Little giants. Tiny fuse ba...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes from the rolls, is usually in strips too long for convenient handling. Here motor-driven shears cut the strip to shorter lengths. At the same time the metal is carefully inspected for surface defects. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes ...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Weighing brass scrap. The war program calls for the use of such vast amounts of brass and copper among other metals, that all available scrap must be utilized. Here a truckload of brass trimmings from a sheet mill is being weighed. From here it will go to the casting shop, where it will be remelted and cast again into billets. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Weighing brass scrap. The war...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These twenty-year-old lathes are producing equipment for Uncle Sam's armed forces twenty-two hours a day. Alive to the possibilities of converting old equipment to defense usage, the owner of this small Eastern factory bought and remodelled old equipment which is proving its mettle in 1942. Note overhead power-driven machinery. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These twenty-year-old lathes are produc...

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Conversion. Safety razor plant. Closeup of grinder converted from production of safety razors to tool-posts. Only conversion necessary in this instance is of the tool holding the V-block, which is held in place by the magnetic chuck. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Closeup of grinder converted from prod...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thirty-seven-millimeter gun, this young worker is one of the millions of Americans hard at work behind the men behind the guns. Site of these operations is a factory which formerly made locks and safes, before its conversion to production of guns and gun mounts. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Basing off the breech end of a thir...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation in or on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overse... More

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. George Carell who successfully converted his garage into a defense workshop is shown checking finished parts of war products with micometer. The garage and basement form his factory. No waste of space or time here. Carell got to work without delay and his makeshift factory is going full blast grinding out tools to beat the axis

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. George Carell who success...

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Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. A gear shaper in a large Midwestern farm implement plant works on the production of gears for essential farm equipment and for marine cargo winches. Gun slides and other military equipment are also produced in this plant since its conversion from straight farm equipment manufacture

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. A gear shaper in a large...

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Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder in a New England plant used to grind motor shafts for the firm's normal production of electric dry shavers. It is now grinding spring collets which are used in turning machines to hold the work being turned. Such machines are vitally needed for the war production effort. The conversion of the machine was accomplished by replacing the one-inch vitrified aluminum oxide wheel shown here with a three-inch wheel and by enlarging the feed of the cutting solution. Tolerances on this war work are only .002 inches as compared with the tolerances on the normal production of .0002 inches (see pix #D-2974). Schick Inc., Stamford, Connecticut

Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This Norton type C six-inch semi-au...

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

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor working in marble, this toolmaker is carving a die (a process known as diecasting) from a piece of solid steel for use in the production of forgings for aircraft landing gear. The machining is being done in a converted Midwest automobile plant

Conversion. Auto parts to aircraft landing gear. Like a sculptor worki...

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Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Before conversion to war production, the New England plant employing this veteran craftsman built rowing shells for varsity crews. The plant now produces life rafts for the Navy

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Before conversion to war prod...

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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

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water ...

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Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years we have simply thrown things out when we were through with them, without a thought that they might be reused. Here on this garbage scow carrying rubbish for disposal is a huge stock of waste paper, so vitally needed today for conversion into packing paper for defense and lend-lease products

Waste paper. Waste is an American characteristic. For too many years w...

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Subcontracting aircraft parts. War production is in large measure a story of conversion, a story of using at once facilities already available while newer facilities are being readied. Formerly an airship dock, this huge building--thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports--is now the scene of many busy shops turning out aircraft sub-assembly parts. Either new housing close to the plant or vastly improved public transportation will eventually have to be supplied, for the tires on the cars of the workers, and perhaps even the cars themselves, will in many instances give in before the end of the present emergency. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. War production is in large measure a st...

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Steel production. Steel production in war time. A ladle of molten iron from a blast furncace is poured into an open hearth furnace for conversion into steel. Note the safety latch on the crane hook. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Steel production in war time. A ladle of molten iron...

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

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This worker in...

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Conversion. Fuel oil to coal heating system. Guests can keep warm and tanks can crash German lines at the same time as a result of this Washington hotel's conversion from a fuel oil to a coal heating system. The man installing the coal plant appears dwarfed by the tremendous size of the furnace

Conversion. Fuel oil to coal heating system. Guests can keep warm and ...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy ship, but he's hitting at the Axis just the same. Formerly a Work Projects Administration timekeeper (WPA), this employee of a small Eastern manufacturing firm is now producing small parts for America's war machine, due to the company's subcontract for defense work. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He's not drawing a bead on an enemy shi...

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Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Milling fillets on passenger train window frames in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Milling fillets on passen...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes are stacked by an employee of a large Eastern concern whose product will shortly switch from amusement devices to electrical equipment for Uncle Sam's army and navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Completed push-button panels for jukeboxes ...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the hamburger stand and Mickey Mouse, juke boxes like this, here being tested. From now on, electrical control instruments, based on the principle of the jukebox selection device, will be produced here for use by Uncle Sam's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the ...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. An electrical switch box is hooked up on a No. 9 1/2 big 90T96 Cleveland press, just relocated in an automobile factory to perform an operation on an army truck part. The old location of the press is devoted to tank production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. An electrical switch box is hooked up on...

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Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. A drilling operation on the noses of artillery shells is performed with speed and efficiency in a converted Midwest auto plant. Continuous conveyers feed the shells to the operators to ensure steady production

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. A drilling operation on th...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to bac...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted fro...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. Hot off the press--the last fenders to be produced by a large Midwest automobile manufacturing company before the conversion to production of airplane parts took place

Conversion. Auto body plant. Hot off the press--the last fenders to be...

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Conversion. Safety razor plant. Operation of surface grinder in production of V-blocks for the machine that makes America's war machine. Women are rapidly being drafted to fill men's jobs on light-duty machines as this

Conversion. Safety razor plant. Operation of surface grinder in produc...

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is an old story to this young woman employee of an Eastern hosiery plant which is now forty-percent converted to the manufacture of mosquito netting for the armed forces. These warp holders are used to determine the tensile strength of yarn and to keep it in place during machine operations. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is ...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Intermediate rolling operation on strip. Strip brass and copper, cast as thick heavy cakes, is reduced by successive rolling to lighter gauge sheet, strip, bar, plate, wire or foil. Here's one of the intermediate rolls used in the production of strip. The man is coiling the strip as it comes from the rolls. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Intermediate rolling operatio...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass and copper tube mill. Copper tubes are made in many sizes, and in many alloys, and are needed for war production in hundreds of different ways--from small diameter tubing for gas and oil lines in airplanes and tanks and motor cars to large diameter tubes used in construction of our battleships. A tube annealing furnace may be seen to the right. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. The inside of a large brass a...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the right record for you on the jukebox are assembled by young girls working in a large East coast plant. After the last jukeboxes rolled off the assembly line, this company will use the same machines and operations to manufacture electrical control devices for the Army and the Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the ...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of aircraft engines are bent on this horizontal bulldozer which was formerly used to bend rails for merry-go-rounds to delight the hearts of carefree children. It was thought impossible to convert the machine for this use, but a little thinking and ingenuity solved the problem. The slack was taken out of the bulldozer and it was found to work quite satisfactory as an aid to bending the heavy hooks into shape. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of ai...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration is this stock of figures for merry-go-rounds. The New York state plant which formerly turned them out is now engaged in the production of bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration is this ...

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. This mechanic used to tend machines which produced some of America's sheerest hosiery. Today he's working for America's armed forces on these same machines, which are producing mosquito netting for the Army and Navy. In the picture, he's servicing the mesh gears of a loom. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. This mechanic used to tend machines which...

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Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for automobiles

Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells ...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

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Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Steam cargo winches for the Maritime Commission roll off the assembly line of a converted Midwestern plant which formerly produced power farming implements

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Steam cargo winches for ...

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Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. This is the exterior of the Carell home. The side door admits authorized visitors to the war shop. A stenciled sign warns off others to stay out

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. This is the exterior of t...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multi-spindle screw machine that formerly worked on cash register parts now performs a first operation on 37mm M-54 high explosive shells. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A multi-spindle screw mac...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The fine machinery and skilled operators of a commercial watch case factory are now producing precision radio parts for the armed forces. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Volunteers for Victory. The...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Installing new jogs and fixtures on an old automobile production machine. For more than ten years this machine has been making automobile parts; now it will make aircraft parts to help "keep 'em flying." The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Installing new jogs and fixtures on a...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. Above is a completed shell ejector getting its final testing. The brass bottom of a navy shell is applied on the testing stand, with the spring mechanism which actually ejects the shell getting the primary test. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

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Conversion. Silverware plant. An Eastern factory which produces bomb shackles for Uncle Sam's birdmen was once one of the country's best-known manufacturers of table silver. Above is closeup of a shaft assembly in specially made milling jig. Held at left is unmilled shaft while at right are completed shafts in milling jigs. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. An Eastern factory which produces bomb s...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Cement makes new floor foundations for heavy war production machinery in this converted automobile factory. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Cement makes new floor foundations fo...

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Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Some of the traps made by an Eastern concern that specialized in these products during peace years. All the facilities of the plant are now devoted to the making of armor-piercing bullet cores, incendiary bomb noses, army cot parts and other war essentials

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Some of the t...

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Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Smooth and shiny as satin instrument covers made from plywood undergo final sanding. The worker operating the electric sander made rowing shells before the plant where he is employed converted to war production

Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Smooth and shiny as satin ins...

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[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Conversion of St. Paul]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Conversion of St. Pau...

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[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Conversion of St. Paul]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Conversion of St. Pau...

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[Design drawing for stained glass window with scenes from the Life of Paul: persecuting Christians, Road to Damascus, conversion, preaching at synagogue for St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Holyoke, Massachusetts.]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with scenes from the Life of ...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. This special-purpose drilling machinery formerly used in automobile manufacture and not readily adaptable to war work, will first be stored in the back of the plant and later outdoors as the plant becomes filled with war work. Such machines are listed, however, and if any manufacturer needs them for war work, they can be found and shipped. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. This special-purpose drilling machine...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is dipping the tail section of an airplane in bath, a necessary process prior to painting. Location: a large Midwest factory, recently converted from manufacture of automobile bodies to essential war production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. This Negro worker is dipping the tail sec...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-truck driver at work in ex-lock factory. Clyde Dahlberner is one of Uncle Sam's millions working for victory behind the men behind the guns. He's doing bench work on a breech ring for a thirty-seven-millimeter gun, present product of this factory. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Ex-truck driver at work in ex-lock ...

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Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed forces are assembled in a factory once devoted to manufacture of safes and locks. These are breech ring mounts for the guns. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. Millimeter guns for America's armed...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Retouching a used cash register for South American shipment. The production facilities of the plant in which it was made have been converted to essential war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Retouching a used cash re...

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Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys at Bataan? These employees of a Midwest heater company take time out for lunch and the news before resuming work on installing assembly apparatus for M-4 tank bogie wheels in a company warehouse

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys a...

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Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. An oxygen cylinder for high altitude flying, manufactured by the metal division of a large Eastern rubber factory is completed, and after having passed all tests, it is placed on the huge stack ready for shipment to the U.S. Army. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. An oxyge...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. An ex-automobile worker is pictured here operating a centering machine to determine the plain and stroke of an airplane engine crankshaft. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product of this Eastern factory now undergoing conversion to production of small precision parts for machine guns. This milling machine has not yet been converted to the war effort and is still turning out parts for burners. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product o...

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Conversion. Duck decoys to incendiary bomb noses. Polishing incendiary bomb noses on an emery belt that the same worker was using a short time ago to sand duck decoys for American sportsmen. A broad conversion in which a woodworker and woodworking machinery changed over to metal working

Conversion. Duck decoys to incendiary bomb noses. Polishing incendiary...

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Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. After the circumferential straps are welded to the cylindrical portion, in the metal division of a large Eastern rubber factory, rough edges and accumulated weld scale are removed by a skilled workman. The twin rotary brushes, shown above, do their work on the inside and outside of the cylinder in the same operation. This process is required in the manufacture of shatterproof oxygen cylinders for high altitude flying. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. After th...

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Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by mel...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A machine paints the exterior and interior of each 37mm M-54 high explosive shell made at a former cash register factory now engaged in war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A machine paints the exte...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and U.S. Army inspectors view expanse of freshly laid cement covering track wells where freight cars rolled before December 1941. With one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, new machinery and equipment will occupy this space. Other requirements of conversion included the denuding of five and one-half miles of overhead conveyers. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and ...

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Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Packing coils of refrigeration tubing in paper containers. Because it is important to keep dirt and moisture from refrigeration tube, it is packaged in individual envelopes. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Packing coils of refrigeratio...

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Conversion. Hosiery factory. She wears them but she doesn't make them any more. Conversion of a large Eastern mill from production of women's stockings to mosquito netting for the Army and Navy, gives this worker a vital defense job. She's drawing yarn from warp machine into warp beams prior to its use on looms. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. She wears them but she doesn't make them ...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Erstwhile elevator operator, this employee of a small Eastern plant finds a touch of similarity between levers of the old job and the new. But he's one of America's war production workers now, due to the company's subcontract for war production. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Erstwhile elevator operator, this emplo...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, this machine was converted from a line shaft drive to motor drive when a small Eastern manufacturing company converted its product from floor waxers to small parts for war equipment. Unable to purchase new equipment for his defense work, the owner bought second-hand equipment and remodelled it. Delivery of first orders was made thirty days after contract, an amazingly short time considering that conversion of the machinery took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, th...

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Paul Wooten, President of the National Conference of Business Paper Editors (left) and Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (right), at the Conversion Conference of Business Paper Editors and Publishers with War Production Board officials in Washington, D.C.

Paul Wooten, President of the National Conference of Business Paper Ed...

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

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A boring operation on the Oerliken machine for 20mm anti-aircraft guns. Many regular employees were retained when a large cash register manufacturing plant changed over to war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. A boring operation on the...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capable hands has delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Their skill has now been diverted for the duration to lathe work on landing gear housings for the deadly Airacobra. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capab...

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Conversion. Safety razor plant. In a New England plant manufacturing safety razors, honed head blade clips for razors. Normally her full-time job, Estelle now spends much of her time grinding V-blocks on these same machines, which are rapidly being converted to war production work under a subcontract

Conversion. Safety razor plant. In a New England plant manufacturing s...

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Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Conversion, all the day. The fourty-five star flag above a worker in a converted watch case factory marks a soldier of the firing line of '98, now a soldier of the production line of '42. The plant makes small carbine and machine gun parts, compass cases and radio parts for our armed forces. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Conversion, all the day. Th...

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Forty-two keys to victory. They're practically luxury itmes today, these typewriters which formerly were manufactured at the rate of about 800,000 per year. With typewriter factories now undergoing conversion to war production, there's an urgent need for all privately owned, non-essential typewriters of recent vintage to be turned over to the armed forces

Forty-two keys to victory. They're practically luxury itmes today, the...

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Washington, D.C. Conversion of the Shoreham Hotel furnace from oil to coal burning system

Washington, D.C. Conversion of the Shoreham Hotel furnace from oil to ...

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Conversion. Duck decoys to incendiary bomb noses. Farewell to ducks. This worker sanding duck decoys on an emery belt will soon be producing war essentials. He is finishing up the last batch of decoys before using the same machine to perform an operation in the production of incendiary bomb noses

Conversion. Duck decoys to incendiary bomb noses. Farewell to ducks. T...

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Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Grinding a crankshaft for a farm tractor engine in a large Midwestern implement plant before the machine was converted to the grinding of axles for marine cargo winches

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Grinding a crankshaft fo...

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