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Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine tools and the old grind stone, somewhat modernised--all find a part in our war production program. These workers finish off one of the many parts that go to make up the equipment that helps to turn out the steel required for tanks and ships and guns. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine to...

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Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small shops throughout the nation making articles of the War Production Program. Here in the women's department of the Dante Electric Company, three workers of the Dante family help in the production of electrical parts for submarines. Mr. Dante just made a slight adjustment on the mechanical screw driver operated by Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. In the center, Mr. Artie Shaw is working on a similar machine, while Mary Dante puts her down for observation duty on the local airplane watching post. Bertha Kreig, of nearby Harwinton, is working at the right rear, while in the right foreground, Mrs. Dante is making an adjustment on a light joiner

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small sho...

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Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. Class work is part of their training to be expert tool and die makers

Learning how. The war production program means school to these boys. C...

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Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a woman employee operates a turret lathe under the close supervision of a skilled machinist in North American's modern machine shop

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a wom...

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Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium caliber gun rushed for the war production program in an eastern arsenal

Taking care of the kick-back. Recoil rails are assembled for a medium ...

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Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric company, George Matheson, expert electrical worker, skillfully adjusts spools of copper wire feeding on to the large 120 turn coils which he turns. Production of all such electrical equipment has been greatly stepped up due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Forty years with a great Eastern electric com...

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Steel mill equipment. The expanded War Production Program calls for more and more steel to make the tanks, ships, guns that are required. Finished parts for additional steel mill equipment are here receiving their final inspection at a Pennsylvania heavy industry plant now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. The expanded War Production Program calls for mo...

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Transformer manufacture. A large Eastern electrical company where huge power transformers, vital to America's war effort, are produced. Power transformers are essential to almost every phase of America's war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. A large Eastern electrical company where huge...

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Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed toward completion under the war production program. Guns shown here are being turned out in the major caliber shop of a large eastern arsenal

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed tow...

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Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small shops throughout the nation making articles of the War Production Program. Here in the women's department of the Dante Electric Company, three workers of the Dante family help in the production of electrical parts for submarines. Mr. Dante just made a slight adjustment on the mechanical screw driver operated by Mrs. Hazel Wheeler. In the center, Mr. Artie Shaw is working on a similar machine. Bertha Kreig, of nearby Harwinton, is working at the right rear

Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. One of the many small sho...

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Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and skilled winding of coils for distribution transformers; for this reason, women are often preferred for the job. Production of these coils has been stepped up enormously due to the war production program. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. Nimble fingers are essential to rapid and ski...

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