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Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Attaching body parts to a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Attaching body parts to a halftrac...

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Meeting of speakers, prior to rally for labor-management committee members, Scranton, July 29th. Left to right: Brigadier General Brice P. Disque, Coordinator for Anthracite, Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, Department of Interior; Richard Maize, Secretary of Mines, State of Pennsylvania; Michael J. Kosik, District President of United Mine Workers of America; Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headquarters; Mart F. Brennan, Acting District President, UMWA and Regional Representative of UMWA for anthracite; Frank W. Earnest, Jr., President, Anthracite Industries Incorporated; Frank C. Wright, Jr., Washington representative for the anthracite industry

Meeting of speakers, prior to rally for labor-management committee mem...

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Production. 155mm shells. Welding base cover plates of 155mm shells on a Thomson-Gibb welder in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Welding base cover plates of 155mm shells on...

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Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more steel. These highly skilled machinists are doing their part to expand and maintain America's steel production capacity. Heavy castings that will form the backbone of steel mill equipment are being machined in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. Aetna. Elwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more...

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Production. Diesel engines. Crankshafts are prepared for assembly into diesel engines being made for the Navy at a Midwest manufacturing plant

Production. Diesel engines. Crankshafts are prepared for assembly into...

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Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headquarters, speaking before labor-management committee members at Scranton, July 29th. Seated left to right: Earl Williams, Dmitri Goulandris and Michael J. Kosik

Alex G. Nordholm, Chief, Regional Service, War Production Drive Headqu...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious minutes for some much needed refreshment from the plant lunch wagon. At the left a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is nearing completion on the assembly line. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania plant. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Time is short! Workers take a few precious ...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Final inspection of a thirty-seven-millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage assembly. America's war program requires increased production of these precision instruments of protection, designed to bring down the best-armoured, the fastest-flying enemy aircraft. Production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industrial engineering plant now converted almost entirely to military production. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Final inspection of a thirty-seven-millimet...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. Inspection of thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage parts. With 300-plus-mile-per-hour planes for targets, antiaircraft assembly must be a precision instrument to permit the gunner to keep on his target. Inspection is as rigid as in instrument manufacture. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Inspection of thirty-seven millimeter anti-...

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Cows entering the barn to be milked. Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, FSA (Farm Security Administration) co-op, Waterloo, Nebraska. The dairy herd numbers sixty-seven, all papered Holstein stock, forty-six head is now being milked; all the whole milk is being marketed in Omaha through the Nebraska-Iowa Non-Stock Cooperative Milk Association. The herd ranks among the upper ten in herd production of the herd whose production is marketed through the association

Cows entering the barn to be milked. Two River Non-Stock Cooperative, ...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. The leveling yoke for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is cleaned in this bath before being painted. This yoke puts the gun on an even keel no matter what type of terrain the carriage rests upon. War program production scene in a Pennsylvania heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The leveling yoke for a thirty-seven millim...

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Detroit, Michigan. Charles Wilson of the General Motors Corporation with a Navy man and an unknown manufacturer at an early meeting of the Automobile Council for War Production

Detroit, Michigan. Charles Wilson of the General Motors Corporation wi...

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Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). The speedy equipping of the armies of democracy depends upon using effectively and immediately the skill of thousands of men in shops such as the Braden and Van Fossen Works, in Staunton, Virginia. These are special jigs and other tools made up in the shop since Pearl Harbor, all of them to speed production on small war orders. The volume of such orders is much too small, and the shop is even now idle much of the time, but it is just such ingenuity as these men are showing which will mean adequate war production

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). The speedy equipping of ...

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Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. The art of the seamstress has a place in the building of these boats, as illustrated here. Worker is stitching various accessories which will be applied to boats in the course of their construction. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps....

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Halftrac production. The track of an Army halftrac is positioned in the curing mold at a Midwest rubber plant. The operation is performed with a wooden paddle. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Halftrac production. The track of an Army halftrac is positioned in th...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are used in the construction of these ways, where American mechanical genius is employed in the production of ships for our two-ocean Navy

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Thousands of tons of lumber and steel are...

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Production. 155mm shells. The first rough turn on a 155mm shell forging is done on a Curtis lathe in a converted auto plant. In this operation, the forging is cut to length and the base end is faced. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. The first rough turn on a 155mm shell forgin...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to provide steel for the National Defense production program. In these auto graveyards scrapped cars are stripped of all usable parts and then sent to scrap iron dealers who press and bale the metal for shipment to steel mills

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Firing scrapped automobiles to pro...

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Steel production. Steel activity in war time. Molten metal is poured into large molds at an Eastern open hearth furnace. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Steel activity in war time. Molten metal is poured i...

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Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turning roll that will soon be installed in one of our steel mills to increase the production of steel plate and sheet to supply the tanks, ships and gun parts that are required under our expanded war program. A scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turni...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A power section for a Pratt and Whitney airplane engine is installed at a large Eastern plant. This, like all other manufacturing or assembly operations, is handled with the greatest care to assure faultless operation of a fine engine for a fine plane. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A power section for a ...

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Three Thirds of the Nation. Franchot Tone perches on high stool, watches the control booth for cue during presentation of War Production Board (WPB) radio show Three Thirds of the Nation, June 3, 1942

Three Thirds of the Nation. Franchot Tone perches on high stool, watch...

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Production. Lead. View near Creede, Colorade where old lead mines have been reopened. Creede, for many years a "ghost town," has resumed the activities that made it an important lead-producing center years ago, and is now producing much metal vitally needed for the war effort

Production. Lead. View near Creede, Colorade where old lead mines have...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Frames for motor torpedo boats under construction at a large Southern shipyard. These speedy seventy-eight-foot boats are built of prefabricated parts and sections under roof. When ready for launching and fitting they are moved to nearby water. In the right foreground is the side of a steel tank carrier, one of many being built at this yard. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Frames for motor torpedo boa...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated frame sections of a new seventy-eight-foot wooden torpedo boat are joined to the keel at a Southern shipyard. Many speedy motor-driven fighters of this class are built here indoors, of ready-made sections. The completed hulls are then moved to nearby water for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Prefabricated frame sections...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed i...

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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

De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Together these three men have a ...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in the Salinas Valley of California. 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. 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 two year old guayule plantation in...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The upper power turret of a new B-17F heavy bomber, just produced at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft. Turrets like this have meant the finish of many Jap and Nazi flyers. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The upper power turret of a new B-17F...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a Southern wagon plant operates a machine to insert bolts in the felly, or outer wooden rim of the wheel, prior to the fitting of the metal tire

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a S...

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Production. M-4 tanks. From our arsenal of democracy pours a strong, steady stream of mighty M-4 tanks. Each tank is given a final careful check before it rolls off the assembly line of an Eastern plant

Production. M-4 tanks. From our arsenal of democracy pours a strong, s...

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Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Electrical wiring assemblies for B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers ready for installation at the Boeing plant at 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. Electrical wiring assemblies for B-17F...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A lower skin section is riveted to the wing of a B-17F heavy bomber by women workers in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. A lower skin section is riveted to th...

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War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production Board (WPB) to war plants, restaurants, hotels, American Legion posts. The original is 14 1/4 inches by 20 inches and is printed in red, yellow, black, blue, and green on white. Copies be obtained from Bureau of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information (OWI), 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

War production drive poster. Poster distributed by the War Production ...

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Production. Naval gun mounts. A big naval gun mount chassis is coated with aluminum paint before proceeding to assembly operations in a Midwest plant. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Naval gun mounts. A big naval gun mount chassis is coated ...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where automobiles were manufactured twenty-four hours a day up until a few weeks ago. These giants will soon be converted to production of tanks for Uncle Sam's army. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where auto...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats for the Navy are built of prefabricated parts and sections in a large Southern shipyard. These fast seventy-eight-footers are built under roof and moved to a nearby waterway for launching and fitting. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats f...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Electric arc-welders run a long seam on a new 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. Electric arc-welders run a lo...

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Seniors in Animal Husbandry in a class in pork production. They are studying feed samples. Class led by professor A.L. Anderson. Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa

Seniors in Animal Husbandry in a class in pork production. They are st...

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Production. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together into flare parachutes, a task which requires just as much care and skill as does working on parachutes that will bear men. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. These women sew yards of silk together i...

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Citation winner. Herbert Rudolph James, certificate winner, an employee of the Christy Park Works, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

Citation winner. Herbert Rudolph James, certificate winner, an employe...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Punch-press dies are kept in order by this North American Aviation employee, who delivers them to the proper machines for specific jobs at the Inglewood, California, plant. This plant produces the battle-tested ("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. Punch-press dies are kept i...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Twin rows of partial power section assemblies for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines form an interesting pattern on the floor of a large Eastern plant now producing great numbers of power installations for our fighting aircraft. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Twin rows of partial p...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidated transport, just off the assembly line of a Western plant, taxies away from the flight hangar toward the flight runway for a takeoff. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as the C-87 and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting system in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidated trans...

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Production. Tin smelting. Tin is recovered from smelting furnace smoke in a Southern operation that produces pure tin from South American ore. All the smoke from the furnace is carried by long tubes to Cottrell precipitating units as shown. Here an electrical current of 65,000 volts throws out all the tin held in the smoke, and makes a valuable addition to the supplies of tin now needed for the countless critical war uses of the United Nations

Production. Tin smelting. Tin is recovered from smelting furnace smoke...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Packing guayule seedling as they are dug from the nursery beds. The roots are packed in damp shingle-tow (cedar shavings), in which condition the plants may be shipped for long distances. 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. Packing guayule seedling as they are...

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Production. Bombers. High speed bomber production at new plant. Advanced manufacturing methods ensure record output. Fixtures are used in places instead of jigs. Frame section is riveted by the man at the right, while the man at the left bucks up the rivets

Production. Bombers. High speed bomber production at new plant. Advanc...

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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

Conversion. Watch cases to war production. Skill and experience back t...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Lubricating and servicing a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber

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

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A skilled machinist operates a high speed hand saw to make production tools in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. 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. A skilled machinist operate...

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Production. Mercury. Loading mercury ore into a mine car with a mechanical loader. 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 with a mechan...

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Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Here are a few of the twelve automatic mimeographs in the WPB's duplicating section. Each of these machines runs twenty-four hours a day and turns out 6,000 copies in an hour

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Here are a fe...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitney airplane motor set up on a test stand at a large Eastern plant. When this engine has proved its ability to meet the high standards of the factory, it will be shipped with many others to one or another of the great aircraft factories. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitne...

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Production. Copper (refining). Handling a fire door for a furnace 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). Handling a fire door for a furnace at a...

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Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper refining operation. Sheets of pure copper are formed by electrolysis, later melted and poured 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). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper re...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The belly turret of the B-17F heavy bomber has stopped many Axis pilots. A gunner on this rotating cage controls the fire of two heavy caliber machine guns. This new ship is ready for delivery from the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The belly turret of the B-17F heavy b...

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War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. The War Production Board (WPB) produced these stickers for distribution in war plants. They were designed for pasting on workers' machines to stimulate output of vital war materials. Sheets of assorted stickers may be obtained by writing Distribution Section, War Production Drive Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

War production drive sticker. The war production drive headquarters. T...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. One of the means of stepping up production in copper mines is the use of such signs

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. One of the means of st...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. This business of wiping Hitler off the map is a job that calls for speed. Workers in a huge Midwest plant, newly converted from automobile body to airplane production, take time out for lunch right next to the job they're working on. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. This business of wiping Hitler off the ma...

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Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rigging of parachutes is well known to Adeline Gray, an employee of an Eastern plant, and herself a licensed rigger parachute jumper. Last summer she made the first jump in the first nylon parachute. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut

Production. Parachute making. The importance of proper folding and rig...

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Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with his labor. Dr. Bair, former college professor and holder of eleven degrees, heads the war production drive as a sub-contractor. He saws steel bullets to required sizes on power saws

Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with hi...

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Production. B-17F heavy bomber. Mary Miller, operator of a router at the Boeing plant in Seattle, drills holes in a part for a new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber. 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. Mary Miller, operator of a router at t...

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Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Steel ramp boats, fifty feet long, powered by twin diesel engines, are being made in great numbers at a large Southern boat building yard. Two of the ramp boats, one with the ramp partly lowered, shown at the right. The materials in the foreground are for the construction of buildings that will house the production lines, which have heretofore been in the open. Higgins Industries

Production. Fifty-foot steel ramp boats. Steel ramp boats, fifty feet ...

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Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch for the men of America's armed forces! Blonde, twenty-one-year-old Elne Nigholm brazes bolt latch releases for the Army's machine guns in a Midwest plant which has been converted from the manufacture of spark plugs to production of war materials. Two thousand women now work in this plant, with more to be added as production increases. A.C. Spark Plugs

Women in war. Machine gun production operators. She carries a torch fo...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Grinding an inside girth seam on a heat exchanger 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. Grinding an inside girth seam...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. Workman inspects the tail section of an airplane in a Midwest automobile body plant now converted to production of war essentials. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. Workman inspects the tail section of an a...

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War production suggestions. For making a contribution that will safeguard lives of combat pilots, James A. Merrill, research chemist at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, was presented with a Citation of Individual Production Merit by War Production headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB). His suggestion concerned development of a resistant barrier to aromatic fuels used in bullet seal tanks on airplanes. It will help keep planes in the air under extreme weather conditions, save the lives of pilots returning in planes with gas tanks pierced by bullets, and lessen unnecessary plane crashes

War production suggestions. For making a contribution that will safegu...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. This overhead crane runs the full length of a large Midwest machine tool plant. The foundry ingredients in this picture, front to rear, are crushed limestone, pig iron, scrap cast iron and, in the far background, sand. The crane distributes these materials in bins under the roof of the foundry, from which they are automatically weighed into huge iron baskets in the charge make-up pits

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. This overhead crane...

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Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. On this assembly line, final touches are put on nearly-completed bomb shackles. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Assembly work on a B-17F heavy bomber is speeded by unobstructed working areas and adequate parts storage spaces at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model of the B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. Assembly work on a B-17F heavy bomber...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A universal cutter sharpening machine for keeping fit the cutting tools that are used by other machine tools. Here the machine is being carefully inspected in the runoff line. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. A universal cutter ...

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Donald M. Nelson, Chairman, War Production Board, speaking over nation-wide hookup from Washington, D.C. at 9:45, Monday, March 2, 1942, answering the Spring Production Drive

Donald M. Nelson, Chairman, War Production Board, speaking over nation...

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De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the production schedule of the La Roe's family shop at Eustis, Florida in processing vital parts for the De Land pool. At the left is Mrs. Ruby Laurence, Mr. La Roe's sister who came down from the north for a visit and stayed south to work on war production. At right is Mrs. La Roe

De Land pool. La Roe shop. Two grandmothers who are keeping up the pro...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lively discussion resulted when labor and management talked over production problems of the anthracite industry in Pennsylvania. This is one of the many labor-management anthracite committees in the state. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lively discussion resulted...

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Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. Completed bomb shackle is shown above. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

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Transformer manufacture. Assembling the tap changing units that control power transformers, this employee of a large Eastern electrical plant has a job that's vital to America's war effort. Transformers are essential to almost every industry engaged in defense production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Assembling the tap changing units that contro...

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Conversion (auto accessory plant). Workers at a New York City plant polishing parts for field sterilizers for the U.S. Medical Corps. This firm, engaged formerly in the manufacture of automobile accessories, has been converted ninety percent to war production

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Workers at a New York City plant p...

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Production. Copper (refining). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper refining operation. Sheets of pure copper are formed by electrolysis, later melted and poured 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). Electrolytic tanks in a large copper re...

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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit buyer and a carpenter, both over fifty, now doing aircraft welding which is passing army inspectors without a single rejection. Typical of the men of De Land who went into war production are John W. Smith, left, fifty-two, with five children and three granddaughters; and Lape Fridell, right, fifty-six, with three children. They are learning their new trade in the De Land welding school, before going to work in the De Land pool

De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. A De Land, Florida fruit bu...

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Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Sections of frameworks for B-17F (Flying Fortress) bomber fuselages at the Boeing plant in Seattle. 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. Sections of frameworks for B-17F (Flyin...

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Boeing aircraft plant, Seattle, Washington. Production of B-17 (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. A team of men and women workers complete assembly and fitting operations on the interior of a fuselage section

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

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for preparing nylon threads for the making of parachute cloth in an Eastern plant. This is one of the largest machines of highest speed in the country. It carries one thousand spools of nylon in its rack

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. A warping machine for prepari...

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Production. Ventura bombers. On "MacArthur Boulevard" in a large Western aircraft plant. Ventura bombers are rolling off an assembly line that hums every hour of the day and night. As the sign points out, this assembly line is the real starting point of many warlike trips to Tokyo, Berlin, and Rome. Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California

Production. Ventura bombers. On "MacArthur Boulevard" in a large Weste...

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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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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. Marine boilers. Huge stocks of tubes for bent tube boilers are built up in shops of a large Midwest manufacturer producing Army and Navy equipment

Production. Marine boilers. Huge stocks of tubes for bent tube boilers...

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The agricultural engineering farm at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa. It is used in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture in corn production and corn storage investigations. Ames, Iowa

The agricultural engineering farm at Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa. I...

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Small part for a big gun. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Navy yard. This is one of eleven arsenals which have stepped up production to top speed for the war program

Small part for a big gun. Forging part of a large gun in an eastern Na...

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Production. Torpedo tube mounts. A torpedo tube mount in the final assembly stage at a Midwest machine shop engaged in volume production of mounts for torpedo tubes and large naval guns. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Torpedo tube mounts. A torpedo tube mount in the final ass...

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Production. Airplanes. A toolmaker's apprentice at work on a Pratt and Whitney automatic tool room machine in a large Western aircraft plant. He is working on a flap track for a Lockheed Model 58

Production. Airplanes. A toolmaker's apprentice at work on a Pratt and...

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. Women become skilled shop technicians after careful instruction in the school 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 become skilled shop te...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured here, is included in the conversion of a jukebox manufacturing company to war production. Control instruments based on the jukebox selection device will be manufactured for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured ...

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Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Steady of eye and hand, women workers at the great Willow Run bomber plant are among those throughout the country who are relieving serious shortages of skilled workers by doing such semi-skilled jobs as the one shown here. She's welding parts of the cooling system direct to the supercharger. Ford plant, Willow Run

Production. Willow Run bomber plant. Steady of eye and hand, women wor...

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Conversion. Auto body plant. A job often delegated to women in aircraft manufacture is touching up metal braces on ailerons with paint before wing structure is completed. This picture was taken in one of America's automobile body plants newly converted to airplane production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto body plant. A job often delegated to women in aircraf...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. The cargo door of a consolidated transport plane is fitted into a tail fuselage opening at a Western aircraft plant. This new transport, an adaptation of the B-24 bomber, is known as C-87, and carries one of of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production. It is built in a plant equipped with the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. The cargo door of a cons...

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. Molten manganese bronze is poured into a massive mold as a huge ship propeller is cast. A season foundryman in a large war production plant controls the pouring operation. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. Molten manganese bronze is poured in...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. These women mechanics at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company are learning some of the fine points of the mighty engines that power the C-47 transport plane. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across the oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. These women mechanics at the Long B...

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Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for Pratt and Whitney motors are carefully inspected in a large plant now turning out a steady flow of the fine engines that are serving our fighting airmen so well in battle. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for Pra...

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