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Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A dividing head provided with a clamp which fits over the muzzle end of the tube has been adopted for indexing. These seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

Cutting thread sectors on a howitzer with a shaper, in the Erie, Penns...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

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Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire, the 36.00-40 earth mover, used in the construction of airports and new army camps. This huge tire stands nine and a half feet high, with tube and flap, weighs 3,646 pounds and carries 55,000 pounds. The giant mold in which it is vulcanized weighs 300,000 pounds and stands two and a half stories high when the cover is open. The top section of the mold which is raised and lowered to admit the tire, weighs sixteen tons. Large bullet- sealing gasoline and oil tanks are also being cured in this mold

Giant tire manufacturer. Final inspection of the world's largest tire,...

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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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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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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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Cooperation on a torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard arsenal putting the finishing touches on a torpedo tube mount. This arsenal is one of eleven working at top speed for the expanded war program of the Navy

Cooperation on a torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Nav...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Looking down the partly-finished generator room of a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Concrete work for the scroll case and draft tube is completed up to the scroll case roof. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam had an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennesse River system

Tennessee Valley Authority. Looking down the partly-finished generator...

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Chicago, Illinois. In the tube room of the Union Station are also kept volumes of copies of back reservation diagrams

Chicago, Illinois. In the tube room of the Union Station are also kept...

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Taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suction tube. Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

Taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suct...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Front of an x-ray tube apparatus

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Placing the raw tube in the curing mold. This tire worker gives the tubes the same treatment his co-workers give tires; They are cured in a watch-case mold for the required length of time at the proper heat. Naturally tubes take less time than tires because they are single thickness. They are their own "airbags" and are cured inside and out by having live steam forced through them during the cooking process. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Placing the raw tube in the curing mold. This tire worker gives the tu...

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Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Mounting a torpedo tube on a new wooden motor torpedo boat under construction at a big Southern shipyard. This yard also produces steel boats for the Navy. Higgins Industries

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Mounting a torpedo tube on a...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Attaching wiring to a glass tube containing liquid gas. This is later exploded and a group of soldiers are run through the gas to learn its identity by the odor

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Attaching wiring to a g...

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Taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suction tube. Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

Taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suct...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. An x-ray tube.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Weighing ingredients. As in any recipe, this measuring of ingredients for the "batch" of the rubber must be done with great care. At this point it is determined whether the raw rubber will be converted into tread stock, fabric gum, tube stock, repair material or mechanical rubber stock. All ingredients--rubber, chemicals, liquids--are placed in the metal tub, and delivered to the mill room for processing. General Tires, Akron, Ohio

Weighing ingredients. As in any recipe, this measuring of ingredients ...

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Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Attaching wiring to a glass tube containing liquid gas. This is later exploded and a group of soldiers are run through the gas to learn its identity by the odor

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Attaching wiring to a g...

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Citation winner, Walter P. Hill, of the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, of Detroit, Michigan and William G. Marshall (right) Chairman of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winner, Walter P. Hill, of the Wolverine Tube Division of the...

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Production. Steam power plant equipment. Filling tube holes on a high-pressure boiler drum. 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. Filling tube holes on a high-...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. The x-ray plate is contained in the apparatus in front of the girl. The apparatus in the foreground contains an x-ray tube

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

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Production. Torpedo tube mounts. Scraping the teeth of a torpedo tube base in a Midwest plant engaged in large-scale production of mounts for torpedo tubes and large naval guns. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Torpedo tube mounts. Scraping the teeth of a torpedo tube ...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization leader, speaking at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Gossamer filaments of glass, each twenty times finer than human hair, are drawn together into a strand at more than a mile a minute, and wound on a forming tube on the floor below. The fibers are drawn from glass melted in an electric furnace above the worker's head

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Gossamer filament...

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Mexican day laborer taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suction tube. Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

Mexican day laborer taking the cotton from the truck into the gin thro...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. In the pipe cutting department of a large Midwest bending plant, elbows are cut to length from sections bent from straight pipe. The cutting is done with saws or automatic torches. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. In the pipe cut...

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Citation winners. President Roosevelt is shown here with the group, left to right: Herbert R. James, Christy Park Works, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania; George Smolarek, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan; Walter P. Hill, C&H Consolidated Copper Company, Detroit, Michigan; William G. Marshall, Director of War Production Drive; Edwin C. Tracy, RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey; Clinton R. Hanna, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company; Stanley Crawford, RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey; Joseph H. Kautisky, Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana; Daniel W. Mallett, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford, Illinois, Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), M.E. Butler, Stromberg- Carlson Manufacture Company, Rochester, New York

Citation winners. President Roosevelt is shown here with the group, le...

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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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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) counselor; Philip Murray, CIO president; and Harold Ruttenberg (speaking), research director, United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, setting a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Lee Pressman, Congress of Ind...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). First operation in the process of tire and wheel assembly. The workman shown above is putting the tube and flap inside the casing of the type of tire with which all Dodge Army trucks are equipped

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). First operation in the process of tire...

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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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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. 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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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Pouring mercury from small tube into pen which contains flour gold mixed with the natural dirt. Process for removing this flour gold is described in caption 12693-M5. Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Pouring mercury from small tube into pen which contains flour gold mix...

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The man behind the gun. Worker in an eastern arsenal finishing up the breech end of a tube of a medium-caliber gun for the war program

The man behind the gun. Worker in an eastern arsenal finishing up the ...

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Citations of Individual Production Merit awarded. The first five citations of Individual Production Merit have been awarded to five war workers, War Production Drive Headquarters has announced. The citation is the highest award conferred for individual achievement. It is granted only for ideas or suggestions that have an outstanding effect on the war effort. Walter P. Hill of Detroit, Michigan, a sales and development manager for the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., developed an idea of prime military importance. All that can be said is that he developed the "overall spum and primer for an ammunition primer which is now being utilized for large manufacturers of primer tubes. This effects a saving of metal, increased production with present facilities and lower overall production costs." The rest has been restricted by military authorities

Citations of Individual Production Merit awarded. The first five citat...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Forging shop crew of a Midwest plant serve the world's largest machine of its kind a nine inch upsetter. This machine is used for forging 75 mm shells for the Army. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Forging shop crew of a Midwest plant serve ...

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Finishing torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard arsenal putting the finishing touches on a torpedo tube mount. This arsenal is one of eleven working at top speed for the expanded war program of the Navy

Finishing torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard ...

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Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, L...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Large shipments of pipe fittings for Army purposes are shipped regularly from a big Midwest plant. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Large shipments of pipe fittings for Army p...

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Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now forging 75 mm shells for the Army. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now f...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Finishing department of large Midwest plant producing pipe fittings for the Army. Here fittings made by bending straight pipe pass through beveling and other machine operations that prepare them for later welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Finishing department of large Midwest plant...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valves and needles for blood transfusion bottles are turned out by O. Trumbull Scalbon, who with his father manufactures parts under subcontract to Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois. Here he checks the size of thread and concentricity of a tube

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Valves and needles for blood tr...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant that makes many kinds of pipe fittings. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. A large pipe elbow is beveled for welding in a Midwest plant. The elbow is made by bending a straight pipe to the radius desired and sawing out a section of required length. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. A large pipe el...

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Production. Naval gun mounts. Getting pinions on a naval gun mount assembly. The large Midwest plant producing these mounts in great quantities is also making many torpedo tube mounts. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Naval gun mounts. Getting pinions on a naval gun mount ass...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger, used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. X-ray operator with an electrical tube in use. This room is lined with lead and the operator looks through the glass into the room where the patient is

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Citation winners. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, with a trio of workers at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony, left to right; Clinton R. Hanna, citation winner, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburg, Secretary Perkins; Daniel W. Mallett, certificate winner, Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford, Illinois; and Herbert R. James, certificate winner, Christy Park Works, National Tube Company of McKeesport, Pennsylvania

Citation winners. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, with a trio of w...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A worker in a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation guides a strand of 204 glass filaments from the forming machine above to the gathering tube on which it is wound at more than a mile a minute

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. A worker in a pla...

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Production. Pipe welding. Giving the production drive his personal attention. This husky machine operator in a large Midwest machine shop is a type of manpower that is helping to show America's might against the Axis. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe welding. Giving the production drive his personal att...

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Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, L...

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Citation winners. President Roosevelt is shown with the group left to right; Stanley Crawford, certificate winner, RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey; James Merrill, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio; Daniel W. Mallett, certificate winner, Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation of Rockford, Illinois; Joseph H. Kautsky, Link-Belt Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of War Production Board (WPB); Madison E. Butler, citation winner, of Strongberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company, Rochester, New York; and Herbert A. James, certificate winner, Christy Park Works, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania

Citation winners. President Roosevelt is shown with the group left to ...

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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...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Tubes are extruded. Much as meat is forced through a grinder, tube rubber is forced through this machine and out the opening at the end, which allows an even flow of rubber to make a seamless rubber tube. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Tubes are extruded. Much as meat is forced through a grinder, tube rub...

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Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Coat of rubber cement is applied wherever fixtures are to be attached and method of applying them is quite similar to applying a repair patch to an automobile inner tube. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) leader, left, and Harold Ruttenberg, research director for United Steel Workers (USW), at the "Little Steel" hearing held by the War Labor Board, at the in Washington, D.C., July 1. The hearing arose from a wage dispute between union demands and four "Little Steel" companies: Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel. The hearing resulted in a fifteen per cent wage increase formula, and set a precedent for future wage adjustments to meet recent increases in the cost of living

War Labor Board: "Little Steel" hearing. Philip Murray, Congress of In...

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

Production. Pipe fittings. The world's largest machine of its kind, a ...

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Production. Naval gun mounts. The gear drive of a naval gun mount is carefully assembled and fitted in a large Midwest plant, which is also producing torpedo tube mounts. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Naval gun mounts. The gear drive of a naval gun mount is c...

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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. The x-ray plate is contained in the apparatus in front of the girl. The apparatus in the foreground contains an x-ray tube

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so are the tube molds. This one has just opened; all the operator need do is remove the finished tube and put in another raw one. Note the seam marks in the mold itself, which leave their imprint on the tube. Thus a seamless tube may appear to have a collection of many sections. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so...

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Sending the weather data down thru the compressed air tube from the teletype room. Washington, D.C. municipal airport

Sending the weather data down thru the compressed air tube from the te...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Testing the finished tube before packing. Fully inflated, every tube is tested by immersion in water before being dried, and packed for shipment. Rarely do workers find an imperfect tube, but this extra precaution is taken in every instance--just in case. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Testing the finished tube before packing. Fully inflated, every tube i...

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Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, Louisiana, a student nurse. Her father is a machinist at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. Miss Lydia Monroe of Ringold, L...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. An automatic torch cuts a pipe elbow to size in a Midwest plant. Elbows are cut to any length and angle from bent pipes. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Pipe fittings for the Army. An automatic to...

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Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Receiving weather observations from all parts of the country by pneumatic tube from the nearby communications stations

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Boats are fitted with various pockets for carrying emergency rations and other equipment. This picture shows outer tube of boat completed before bottom has been applied. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

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

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Production. Torpedo tube mounts. Front pieces of torpedo tubes are drilled for assembly in a Midwest plant producing great numbers of mounts for torpedo tubes and large naval guns. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Torpedo tube mounts. Front pieces of torpedo tubes are dri...

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Adding valve patch and stamping. As the endless tube passes by, the proper length of each tube is automatically crimped into the edge, and serves as a guide for placing the valve patch and stamping the trade name. This tire worker operates both sides of this machine....places the patch into position before it reaches the pressure rollers, and stamps the name just after it leaves the rollers. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Adding valve patch and stamping. As the endless tube passes by, the pr...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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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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Turning them out. Rough turning a 90 mm gun tube in a special lathe in an eastern arsenal

Turning them out. Rough turning a 90 mm gun tube in a special lathe in...

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Seating the valve and seaming the tube. After each tube is snipped off at the proper length, it passes to this worker who places the open and over a sleeve, and forces the valve into position right in the center of reinforcing patch. This makes doubly sure that the tube is absolutely leak-proof. When this is done, the cube can be seamed shut--the operation which is taking place here. The two ends are butted together, the sticky rubber is bonded together under pressure, and passed on to the curing molds for vulcanizing. Firestone (General), Akron, Ohio

Seating the valve and seaming the tube. After each tube is snipped off...

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Testing the finished tube before packing. Fully inflated, every tube is tested by immersion in water before being dried, and packed for shipment. Rarely do workers find an imperfect tube, but this extra precaution is taken in every instance--just in case. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Testing the finished tube before packing. Fully inflated, every tube i...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equipment are being built up steadily in a big Midwest plant. The fittings are made by bending straight pipe, cutting off desired lengths from the curved sections and beveling edges for butt welding. Tube Turn Incorporated

Production. Pipe fittings. Huge stocks of pipe fittings for Army equip...

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Mexican day laborer taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suction tube. Hopson Plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

Mexican day laborer taking the cotton from the truck into the gin thro...

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Production. 155mm shells. Boring the burster tube recess of 155mm shell on a Denver lathe in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Boring the burster tube recess of 155mm shel...

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Citation winner. Walter P. Hill, citation winner, employeed at the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company of Detroit, Michigan at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

Citation winner. Walter P. Hill, citation winner, employeed at the Wol...

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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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Taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suction tube. Hopson plantation, Clarksdale, Mississippi

Taking the cotton from the truck into the gin through large metal suct...

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Finishing torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard arsenal putting the finishing touches on a torpedo tube mount. This arsenal is one of eleven working at top speed for the expanded war program of the Navy

Finishing torpedo tube mount. Skilled workers in an eastern Navy yard ...

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Citation winners. At the White House, certificate winner George Smolarek (left), employee of the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, and citation winner Walter H. Hill, employed by the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, Detriot, Michigan, meet "Miss Victory," also a Detroit war worker

Citation winners. At the White House, certificate winner George Smolar...

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The open door to a torpedo. Close work fitting a torpedo tube door in an eastern Navy yard arsenal, one of eleven now working at top speed for the expanded war program

The open door to a torpedo. Close work fitting a torpedo tube door in ...

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Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a Certificate of Individual Production Merit. Mr. James is by profession a musician--organist and conductor. At his suggestion a mechanism was incorporated into the torch whereby the oxygen and acetylene mixtures could be varied to create the desired flame

Herbert Rudolph James, machinist, Shell Finish Department, National Tu...

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Production. Naval gun mounts. A large casting for a naval gun mount goes through a planing operation in a Midwest plant which is producing gun and torpedo tube mounts in great numbers. Westinghouse, Louisville

Production. Naval gun mounts. A large casting for a naval gun mount go...

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Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of discarded casings cover more than 100 acres at one Midwest recovery plant. Systematic piling and sectional arrangement reduce fire hazard. Special processes will separate metal from the tires and tube bodies. The reclaimed material will be used to manufacture thousands of essential mechanical rubber products. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires mobilized for Victory. Millions of dis...

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Citation winners. President Roosevelt, shown awarding a Certificate to Herbert R. James, an employee of the Christy Park Works, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania

Citation winners. President Roosevelt, shown awarding a Certificate to...

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Chicago, Illinois. A pneumatic tube system connects the main yard office with yardmasters' offices throughout the Illinois Central Railroad yard. Switch lists and other communications are quickly sent in this way

Chicago, Illinois. A pneumatic tube system connects the main yard offi...

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