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Production. Marine boilers. On the welding floor of a big Midwest boiler factory, heavy production of Army and Navy essentials is the order of the day

Production. Marine boilers. On the welding floor of a big Midwest boil...

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Production. Copper. Conveyor gallery and smokestack at a copper smelter of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company, Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Conveyor gallery and smokestack at a copper smelte...

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Production. Mercury. Rotary kiln in a mercury extraction plant at New Idria, California, in which ore is introduced to a temperature of 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit. This heat drives off the sulphur and vaporizes the mercury which is later condensed. Triple- distilled mercury is produced at the plant by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulfur and mercury, mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Rotary kiln in a mercury extraction plant at New ...

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Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refining operation. Here sheets of pure copper, formed by electrolysis, are melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Casting house in a large copper refinin...

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Production. Copper. Ball mills, which grind copper ores to small sizes, at a large concentrator of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant supplies great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Ball mills, which grind copper ores to small sizes...

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Production. Copper. Loading copper ore from an open-cut mine of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Loading copper ore from an open-cut mine of the Ph...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. These will be melted and cast into ingots. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheets of copper produced by electrolys...

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Production. Tungsten. Entrance to the Boriana tungstan mine near Kingman, Arizona. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital uses in the war effort. Boriana Mine, Arizona

Production. Tungsten. Entrance to the Boriana tungstan mine near Kingm...

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Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. Anthony Freda drills the barrels of .45-caliber automatic pistols in the plant of a large manufacturer of firearms. Many men and women are employed in this plant which produces pistols, machine guns, and other essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. 45-caliberautomatic pistols. Anthony Freda drills the barr...

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America's production chief. "You see, sir, it's like this..." A typical candid glimpse of Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), as he explains an intricate problem to a visitor. Mr. Nelson has a methodical approach to work, weighing all sides of a problem before he makes a decision

America's production chief. "You see, sir, it's like this..." A typica...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Man working on a mold (?) for a part of the plane

Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying...

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Production. Mercury. Loading mercury ore into a mine car by hand at the New Idria, California plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. Triple-distilled mercury is produced from cinnabar, an ore containing sulphur and mercury mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Loading mercury ore into a mine car by hand at th...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The victory labor-management production committee of the Butte mines meets regularly. In the back row from left to right are: J.A. Livingston, Anacnoda Copper Mining Company; E.I. Renouard, assistant general superintendent, ACM; H.J. Rahilly, assistant general superintendent, ACM; Charles Black, Butte miners' union; John Downs, boiler makers' union; W.J. McMahon, commissioner of labor of ACM; John F. Bird, electricians' union; J.P. Ryan, foreman of ACM; Ira Steck, superintendent, electrical department of ACM; James Cusick, machinists' union; John J. Mickelson, Butte miners' union; Eugene Hogan, superintendent ACM. In the front row reading from left to right are: S.S. McGlone, general superintendent, ACM; Bert Riley, Butte miners' union; Dennis McCarthy, Butte miners' union; A.C. Gibley, ACM; Carl Stenberg, painters' union; John Eathorne, foreman of ACM; John Gaffney, carpenters' union

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The victory labor-mana...

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Joseph B. Eastman, director, Division of Transportation, Office of Production Management (OPM)

Joseph B. Eastman, director, Division of Transportation, Office of Pro...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A women worker at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, attaches clips and accessories to a wing section before the parts meets the next assembly. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A women worker at the Long B...

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Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared for testing in a large Eastern plant given over almost entirely to the manufacture of transformers. Transformers are vital to almost every phase of war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These large transformers are being prepared f...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Single-row master rod assemblies for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines travel down the line at a large Eastern plant steadily producing for our armed forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Single-row master rod ...

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Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan, Priorities Division, War Production Board (WPB)

Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan, Pri...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Engineers at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, prepare drawings for the making of a new plane model. 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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Engineers at the Inglewood,...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A water saturating tower in the hydrogen section of the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high-pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen, and is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. A ...

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Salinas Valley, California. A stage in the rubber production from guayule

Salinas Valley, California. A stage in the rubber production from guay...

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Production. Copper. Bulldozer operator at open-cut copper mine of the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona, supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Bulldozer operator at open-cut copper mine of the ...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wheel assemblies ready for painting in the plant of a Southern wheel company which is having boom business these days on account of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wh...

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War production drive. One of the discoveries made by labor-management committees is that posters and streamers are more effective if they are on moving objects. The committee in the Minneapolis plant of the Northern Pump Company keeps effective streamers on the forty-ton cranes

War production drive. One of the discoveries made by labor-management ...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. The nose section of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship in a jig at a large Western aircraft plant. This nose section will later be joined or "mated" to a center section and the partly-finished body will begin its trip down the final assembly line where engines, wings, landing gear and other essential equipment will be installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. The nose section of a new Lo...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Scrap metal piled at the yards of a large foundry of a machine tool builder. Scrap is an important element in making high-grade cast iron for machine tools

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Scrap metal piled a...

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Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. A Negro employee at North American's Inglewood, California, plant, works on extrusion angles for B-25 bombers. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. A Negro employee at North A...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Preparing an experimental scale model of the B-25 bomber for the wind tunnel tests in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. The model maker is adjusting the empennage to its correct position. 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

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Preparing an experimental ...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destroy the Axis. The owner of this small Midwest factory inspects dies for making incendiary bombs. Note doll's furniture on the wall, the company's previous product. Complete conversion of all machines for this factory's production of war essentials is rapidly taking place. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. Dies to destro...

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Citation winners in the war production drive

Citation winners in the war production drive

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Holes are drilled in a waterwall header for a high-pressure boiler. Steam boilers and other power-house equipment to supplement the hydroelectric installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system are produced in the large Chattanooga shops of the Combustion Engineering Company

Production. Steam power plant equipment. Holes are drilled in a waterw...

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Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a Southern tin smelter. The tin extracted from the ore has already been drawn off into floats for further refining. The slag is then run off to the right into ladles which will carry it to recooking operations. The slag is reintroduced to the process for further recovery of the metal

Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a S...

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

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned b...

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Production of 20mm fuses is speeded by a multiple spindle automatic screw machine in a converted cash register factory. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Production of 20mm fuses is speeded by a multiple spindle automatic sc...

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Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at National Youth Administration school

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for ...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. Women workers at the Long Beach, California plant of Douglas Aviation Company groom lines of transparent noses for deadly A-20 attack bombers. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and RAF (Royal Air Force) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations; also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns in varying combinations

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Women workers at the Long Beach, Cali...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Alex Nordholm, Chief of Field Operations, War Production Drive, addressed servicemen and miners at the anthracite rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Alex Nordholm, Chief of Fiel...

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War Production Board Administrative Division "flexible" master organization chart of the WPB on which the offices and lines of authority are designated by movable tabs for organizational changes

War Production Board Administrative Division "flexible" master organiz...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserved. Casings for the big landing wheels of C-47 transport planes in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserve...

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Production. Pipe fittings. The V-belt drive of the world's largest machine of its kind, a nine inch upsetter. The machine is used in a Midwest plant to forge 75 mm shells for the Army. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. The V-belt drive of the world's largest mac...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mature guayule shrubs, about five years old. In harvesting, the entire shrub is dug up since rubber occurs in both roots and branches. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mature guayule shrubs, about five ye...

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Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. "Asarco," used in making molding dies for airplane construction at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. "Asarco," used in makin...

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Giant tire manufacturer. A steady stream of large, rugged tires for Uncle Sam's fighting forces, like those above, is now in mass production at this large Eastern plant. Here workmen are shifting newly vulcanized tires to conveyor lines that will take them to final inspection department. They are then shipped to the fighting forces to help build the ever-increasing number of mobile and mechanized units in America's hard-striking war machine

Giant tire manufacturer. A steady stream of large, rugged tires for Un...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Peacetime production of this small Eastern manufacturing plant consisted of such objects as the aluminum photograph dryer (upper left), radio dials, and similar articles for civilian use. Its parts for America's fighting planes. Pictures above is one of the owners of the company. He's holding another peacetime product, a radio chassis

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Peacetime production of thi...

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Citation winner. Joseph H. Kautsky (center), citation winner, an employee of the Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. Kautsky is being congratulated by Senator Claude D. Pepper. At left is Vice Chairman of the War Production Board

Citation winner. Joseph H. Kautsky (center), citation winner, an emplo...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good looks deceive you, these two young workers are actually full-fledged government inspectors who are employed in a converted Midwest vacuum cleaner plant to test gas masks. Every one of the hundreds of rubber masks that move along the assembly belt each day must be thoroughly tested by young women inspectors who put the masks through many different tests. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Don't let their youth and good...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Beveling a large pipe elbow to prepare it for butt welding. Elbows like this, for use in Army equipment, are made by bending straight pipe in a large Midwest plant. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Beveling a large pipe elbow to prepare it f...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversion of this automobile factory to production of airplane engines, the gigantic task of remodelling old machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself was formidable--but speedy. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herulean efforts of management and labor reduced this to early spring of this year. Carloads of scrap material torn out of the plant are shown here at a siding back of the factory. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversi...

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Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Applying lagging on low-pressure heat interchanger piping in the TVA's new synthetic ammonia plant in the Muscle Shoals area. Ammonia is made here by the high- pressure synthesis of nitrogen and hydrogen. The ammonia thus secured is converted at Muscle Shoals to ammonium nitrate for use in the making of high explosive shells. In addition to the production of munitions, the TVA is engaged in research in many fields, seeking new sources of strategic materials and better ways to utilize them in the war effort

Production. New Tennessee Valley Authority synthetic ammonia plant. Ap...

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Washington, D.C. Two of the members who attended the first meeting of the War Production Board (WPB) held in the conference room of the new Social Security Building were Henry A. Wallace, chairman of the Board of Economic Welfare and William S. Knudsen, director general of the Office of Production Management (OPM)

Washington, D.C. Two of the members who attended the first meeting of ...

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Production. Locomotives. The massive size of this locomotive boiler dwarfs the husky worker inside it. In addition to locomotives, the plant doing this work also turns out tanks and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Locomotives. The massive size of this locomotive boiler dw...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of ...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. An armorer in a large Western aircraft plant tests machine gun controls in the partly-finished nose section of a new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane. This section is now ready for the operation of "mating" it to the center section. The ship will travel down the main assembly line to receive engines, wings, landing gear and other essential equipment

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. An armorer in a large Wester...

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Production of butylene glycol. Dr. George E. Ward turns a valve in one of the experimental fermentation vats in which corn is being converted into butylene glycol at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Peoria, Illinois. This is part of the laboratory work that led to the development of a fermentation process for converting corn and other grains into butylene glycol on a semi-commercial scale. Butylene glycol can be used in making anti-freeze for automobiles and in the production of commercial solvents for various manufacturing purposes. Department scientists have succeeded on a laboratory scale in turning butylene glycol into butadiene, from which synthetic rubber can be made. Now they are trying to do it on a semi-commercial scale

Production of butylene glycol. Dr. George E. Ward turns a valve in one...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young field of guayule at the end of the first growing season in the Salinas Valley of California. Plants were transplanted from the nursery in May; picture taken the following fall. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young field of guayule at the end ...

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Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband went into the air corps, Mary Saverick makes parachute harnesses for him and all the other husbands and brothers in the corps. "He's doing all he can to help win the war," she says, "it's only right that I should, too." Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. Married only two weeks when her husband ...

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A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for the Air Force. Electricians begin running power lines to the new machine locations. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

A big auto plant changes over to the production of machine guns for th...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Screws for valve rocker arms of Pratt and Whitney airplane engines are polished on a Gardner machine in a large Eastern plant. This operation is one of many high precision specifications which insure excellence of our fighting planes. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Screws for valve rocke...

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Production. Mercury. Loading mercury ore from a chute into a mine car at the New Idria, California plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company plant. Triple-distilled mercury is produced from cinnabar, an ore containing sulphur and mercury mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Loading mercury ore from a chute into a mine car ...

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Production. Tungsten. Tungsten ores and concentrates are carefully analyzed at a recovery plant near Kingman, Arizona. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital uses in the war effort. Boriana Mine, Arizona

Production. Tungsten. Tungsten ores and concentrates are carefully ana...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. We are inclined to compare all liquids with water. Iron trickles through little channels with a speed that makes water look sluggish -- a surprising thing until you realize that, molten or not, it's still heavy as iron. Location: a large Midwest machine tool factory

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. We are inclined to ...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Tail parts for B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers ready for assembly into the big warships of air at the Boeing plant in Seattle. Rear turrets will be fitted to these parts. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Tail parts for B-17F (Flying Fortress) ...

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Instructor John Wanelik, of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey, shows Veronica Stephens how to grind a stripping angle on a cartridge drawing die. A number of young women are being trained for war production jobs in this shop

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Instructor John Wanelik, o...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections for a new seventy-eight-foot motor torpedo boat at a large Southern shipyard. These fast boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When the hulls are ready for launching and fitting they are moved from the plant to nearby water. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Setting deck beam sections f...

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Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Many detail operations in the making of Oerliken magazines for 20mm anti-aircraft guns are performed by regualar employees of a converted cash register factory now on war production. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

Conversion. Cash registers to gun magazines. Many detail operations in...

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Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Parts for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber are cut on a routing machine in the Boeing plant in Seattle. The Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes, has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere

Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Parts for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress...

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Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--the kind of food that is being sent overseas to save shipping space. From left to right: Leon Henderson, Price Administrator; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB).

Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women assembly workers rivet a gusset to a plane wing rib at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women assembly workers rivet...

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Production. B-17F heavy bomber. E. Waters finishes plaster casts of ducts for B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the Boeing plant at Seattle. The patterns will be reproduced on a Kellar machine. The Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying at high altitudes, has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere

Production. B-17F heavy bomber. E. Waters finishes plaster casts of du...

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Office of War Inf...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Many conferences over production schedules, blue prints, etc. are required to maintain the smooth, steady flow of Dodge Army trucks from the production lines

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. ...

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eastern manufacturing company explains the workings of a soundproof auxiliary engine cover to a friend. He's producing this engine cover on an experimental basis now, along with small aircraft parts, instead of the egg poachers and frying pans he used to make before converting his plant to war production. This cover will enclose motors used on four-engine bombers to take care of retracting gear and other essentials not connected with the main drive engine. Precision Metal Company, New York City, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. One of the owners of an Eas...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Anthracite mine workers at a war bond rally. Such rallies were held at many points in Eastern Pennsylvania from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Anthracite mine workers at a...

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Women aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their production records in a West Coast airplane factory. Feminine operators of tapping machines in this plant have made 400 more tapping operations in the seven and one half hour swingw shift than men employed on the eight hour day shift. A record in anybody's language

Women aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their p...

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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. New tooling and a large drill have fitted this press for the drilling of screw machine parts needed in new machine tools for war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

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

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Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Ambassador Grew (left), Edsel Ford stand beside a new B-24E (Liberator) bomber after an inspection trip through Ford's big Willow Run plant. The Liberator is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges on precision bombing missions. It has proved itself an excellent performer in the Pacific, in Northern Africa, Europe and the Aleutians. Ford's Willow Run Plant, Michigan

Production. B-24E (Liberator) bombers at Willow Run. Ambassador Grew (...

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Production. Tungsten. Tungsten ores and concentrates are carefully analyzed at a recovery plant near Kingman, Arizona. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital uses in the war effort. Boriana Mine, Arizona

Production. Tungsten. Tungsten ores and concentrates are carefully ana...

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the We...

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De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-contracting group for war production

De Land, Florida. De Land pool of small machine shops forming a sub-co...

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Production. A-20 attack bombers. A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 attack bomber is brought from a test hop to the flight line at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. A fast, hard-hitting new A-20 attack ...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Why our warplanes hold together through the years of steady use, rough landings and anti-aircraft fire. These rivets cover but a small part of the surface of a mighty bomber produced at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Why our warplanes hold toget...

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School in war. Los Angeles Polytechnic High. A corner of the tool room in the machine shop of the Los Angeles, Polytechnic High School. This shop is kept busy every day from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. the next morning, training workers for war production jobs in the Los Angeles area

School in war. Los Angeles Polytechnic High. A corner of the tool room...

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Production. Copper (refining). Copper ingots on conveyors at a large copper refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Copper ingots on conveyors at a large c...

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Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Walter Newman, operator of a high-speed lathe in a large firearms plant, performs an operation on the barrel of a machine gun. Many women workers are also employed in this plant in producing essential weapons for the armed forces

Production. Machine guns of various calibers. Walter Newman, operator ...

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Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Sheared sheets of copper produced by el...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Chart of production progress in various mines

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Chart of production pr...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbetter adds glamour to the assembly line of a Midwest gas mask factory which formerly made vacuum cleaners. Operating a riveting press, which attaches cloth tabs to the face pieces of gas masks, this young worker is one of the many company employees who switched over from work on vacuums when the plant was converted. Betty likes her new job better than the old one. "It bears a lot more relationship to my American Women's Voluntary Services work," she says. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbette...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A partly-finished Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship is lowered away into a rolling cradle in a large Western aircraft plant. Supported in this cradle, the ship has now taken its place in the main assembly line. The cradle or stand is moved from station to station where engines, wings, landing gear, controls and other essential equipment are installed

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A partly-finished Lockheed P...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers at the Boeing plant in Seattle complete assembly and fitting operations on the interior of a fuselage section for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. About half of the workers at the Boeing plant are women. The Flying Fortress has performed with great credit in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a four-engine heavy bomber capable of flying high altitudes

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. A skilled team of men and women workers...

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Rochester, New York. Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company, who developed a visual-lamp indicator to test field telephone switchboards and which the U.S. Army Signal Corps claims has saved the equivalent of almost thirty-seven years work, shown at his testing instrument. He received one of the first five "Citations of Individual Production Merit" for his idea which has an outstanding effect on the entire war effort

Rochester, New York. Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for ...

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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

Women in industry. Tool production. "X" marks the kind of work being ...

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Production. War housing trailers. When windows are in place, opaque blackout blinds are installed in war housing trailers under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Light-weight shields are installed at the top and sides to prevent light leaks

Production. War housing trailers. When windows are in place, opaque bl...

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Production. Copper. Open-cut copper mining operations at the Phelps-Dodge Mining Company at Morenci, Arizona. This plant is supplying great quantities of the copper so vital in our war effort

Production. Copper. Open-cut copper mining operations at the Phelps-Do...

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Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for combat planes and boats. A huge hydraulic press operating at high temperature and a pressure of 250 pounds per square inch attaches glue-surfaced veneer sheets to lumber-core panels to make high-grade plywood for Army and Navy uses. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for ...

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Much larger and heavier than passenger car parts, medium tank parts demands many changes in production machinery before the tank sections can be accomodated. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Much larger and heavier than passenge...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. The outer wing panel of a bomber undergoes assembly in the giant Willow Run plant. When finished, this section will be removed and cranes will install another section in the fixture. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. The outer wing panel of a bomber ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the production front is this pneumatic drill that anthracite miners use to produce hard coal. Servicemen learned how anthracite is mined at a miners' rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the produ...

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Production. Electric power. Panel boards at Vega Aircraft Plant. Here the flow of electric power to thousands of machines and hand power tools is controlled. These boards play an important part in the production of planes for our armed forces. Vega Aircraft Corporation

Production. Electric power. Panel boards at Vega Aircraft Plant. Here ...

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