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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes. One of each of these stamps is reproduced separately below the picture of the book. Important note: Actual dimensions of the point ration stamps are 7/8 inch x 1 inch, while the unit stamps are 7/16 inch x 1 inch. The U.S. Secret Service requests that ration stamps not be reproduced in actual size, but less than 3/4 or over 1 1/2 times. Also, stamps should not be reproduced in color. This photograph, if reproduced, same size, meets these requirements

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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

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

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De Land, Florida industrial pool, couldn't make a certain washer fast enough for the contract. So F.W. Casey took parts from a junk heap and built the speed press pictured above. Now it sits in the yard, because of insufficient room in the little shop, and turns out eight washers a minute for the war machine. Operating it is young Norman Bane, who was an automobile mechanic up until six months ago, when he apprenticed as a machinist under Casey

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Casey's machine shop, a unit of the De L...

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Production. Aircraft engines. Hundreds of gears pass through the expert hands of Dorothy Miller and Sylvia Dreiser during their eight-hour working day in a large Midwest aircraft plant. Inspection of these vital cogs in America's war machine is a delicate task and one which requires infinite patience and precision. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Hundreds of gears pass through the exper...

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

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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Conversion. Toy factory. Lucille Ciecko is one of the thousands of workers turning their skill today to the production of vital parts of Uncle Sam's war machine. Here she is shown at her peacetime work, drilling castings for toy locomotives in a large Eastern plant. Today she uses the same press, with different drills, to make the holes in parachute flare casings through which wires are inserted. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. Lucille Ciecko is one of the thousands of wor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is the work history of Stephanie Cewe, whose skill with this electric screwdriver has been turned to the aid of Uncle Sam's war machine. Then Stephanie used to assemble toy locomotives; today, she uses the same screwdriver to assemble flare casings. A. C.  Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is...

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Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is the work history of Stephanie Cewe, whose skill with this electric screwdriver has been turned to the aid of Uncle Sam's war machine. Then Stephanie used to assemble toy locomotives, today, she uses the same screwdriver to assemble flare casings. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thi...

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.

Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and the boiler house of another furnace are the background for a train of cinder ladles. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and t...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Contact print either attached to or in original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War ... More

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...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present books when their stamps are used up, will be distributed during the early summer. It contains four pages of "point" stamps, similar to the point stamps in war ration book 2, though slightly different in design and printed in brown ink. It also contains four pages of "unit" stamps for the type of rationing now used for sugar, coffee, and shoes. Each page of fourty-eight stamps bears the design of a different war machine, including guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and planes

War ration book no. 3. This new ration book, replacement for present b...

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

Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is the work history of Stephanie Cewe, whose skill with this electric screwdriver has been turned to the aid of Uncle Sam's war machine. Here she is shown at her former job--assembling locomotives for toy trains. Today she operates the same screwdriver in her assembly work on flare casing. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is...

Public domain photograph of electric industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling production speed on a certain type of washer needed for the De Land, Florida pool aircraft contract, F.W. Casey went to his scrap heap. He took a two-cylinder gas engine from a spray machine used in an orange grove, a pump from the hydraulic lift of a dump truck, another pump from a steam engine cylinder, and built his hydraulic speed press. Too big for his little machine shop, the machine was set up in the yard, where it produces eight parts a minute for the war machine. Operating it is Norman Bane, Casey's one-man crew

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling produ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and the boiler house of another furnace are the background for a train of cinder ladles. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. Iron for our war machine. A busy blast furnace and t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling production speed on a certain type of washer needed for the De Land, Florida pool aircraft contract, F.W. Casey went to his scrap heap. He took a two-cylinder gas engine from a spray machine used in an orange grove, a pump from the hydraulic lift of a dump truck, another pump from a steam engine cylinder, and built his hydraulic speed press. Too big for his little machine shop, the machine was set up in the yard, where it produces eight parts a minute for the war machine. Operating it is Norman Bane, Casey's one-man crew

De Land pool. Bits and parts. Faced with the problem of doubling produ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is the work history of Stephanie Cewe, whose skill with this electric screwdriver has been turned to the aid of Uncle Sam's war machine. Here she is shown at her former job--assembling locomotives for toy trains. Today she operates the same screwdriver in her assembly work on flare casing. A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut

Conversion. Toy factory. From toy trains to parachute flare casings is...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.