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Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy opened bids today on construction of three 35,000 ton battleships today, all bids specified that the dreadnaughts be completed within 52 months. The guns, armor plate, and other accessories to be furnished by the Government cost an estimated 15,000,000 dollars per ship. The ships are the first of that size to be built in 15 years. Seated, left. Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, and Sec. of the Navy Claude Swanson, right. Standing - left- Rear Admiral William G. Du Bose, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair and right- Rear Admiral Charles Conard, Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 11/2/38

Navy opens bids for battle wagons. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. The Navy ...

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Photograph of One and a Half Ton Fire Truck

Photograph of One and a Half Ton Fire Truck

Original caption: 1-1/2 ton fire truck, Cass Lake Ranger Dist. Historic Photographs

Photograph of One and a Half Ton Chevrolet Truck

Photograph of One and a Half Ton Chevrolet Truck

Original caption: 1-1/2 ton Chevrolet truck heavily loaded with white oak stave bolts going down hillside in woods. Historic Photographs

Tiff sells for six dolllars a ton. Out of this eighty cents goes to the owner of the property and one dollar and fifty cents to the "hauler." Washington County, Missouri

Tiff sells for six dolllars a ton. Out of this eighty cents goes to th...

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Cow eating cabbage near Weslaco, Texas. The price of cabbage is four dollars per ton and is consequently being used as a low price cattle feed

Cow eating cabbage near Weslaco, Texas. The price of cabbage is four d...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Ladling it out! These workers are casting ingots from the ladle into which a thirty-five ton electric furnace has just poured its molten steel. The "hot tops" allow for shrinkage of the steel in the ingots bodies. If these should be any slag left in the molten steel, it will rise into these hot tops, since slag is lighter than the steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Ladling it out! These workers are...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The huge carbon electrodes of the thirty-five ton electric melting furnaces used in converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steels. A worker is adjusting the rings that guide the electrodes into the arc furnace. This is just one of the new furnaces under construction at this plant to meet the expanding need for alloy steels under the emergency created by the national defenseproduction program

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Installing the power plant is a ticklish operation. These workers are lowering a 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation engine into an M-3 tank and they are taking care to insure that each fitting and connection may be made within a few seconds after the motor has been placed in the tank. These twenty-eight ton giants

Chrysler tank arsenal. Installing the power plant is a ticklish operat...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. The M-3 tank has an overall length of 18 feet, which means the track for one-side of this 28- ton monster is about 40 feet long. Each individual tread is made of solid rubber

Chrysler tank arsenal. The M-3 tank has an overall length of 18 feet, ...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steel. A workman adds alloying materials to the bath of molten steel in one of the thirty-five ton electric arc furnaces. These furnaces give faster heating and more accurate temperature control than do open hearth furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A large portion of the 10,000 skilled workers turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit have spent years in the employ of the Chrysler company. They have learned the precision methods needed for automobile production, and their past experience is invaluable for work on the tanks which will make our new Army the equal of any in the world in mechanized power. This worker is turning and facing a cupola ring

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A large portion of the 10,000 skilled wor...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are miscellaneous stampings for M-3's the twenty-eight ton tanks being produced at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The pile includes ammunition racks, tool boxes and instrument panels

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are miscellaneous stampings for M-3...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixtures, for drilling and tapping holes in the 4,000 pound turret casting for the mounting plate of the 37 mm anti-aircraft gun of the Chrysler medium tank, the M-3. These twenty-eight ton steel monsters are being turned out in quantity by 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixture...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Another day's work done. These are workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal, near Detroit, where 10,000 men are producing M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals which promise to make Uncle Sam's mechanized forces the equal of any in the world in striking power

Chrysler tank arsenal. Another day's work done. These are workers at t...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steel. A workman adds alloying materials to the bath of molten steel in one of the thirty-five ton electric arc furnaces. These furnaces give faster heating and more accurate temperature control than do open hearth furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ready for installation in Chrysler M-3 tanks, these routh turret castings, which weigh 4,000 pounds each, have just been received at the huge Detroit tank arsenal where 10,000 men are turning out these twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ready for installation in Chrysler M-3 ta...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Traveling overhead hoists are used throughout the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit, for moving heavy castings from one production operation to another. These workers are removing the rotor casing for a 75 mm gun turret from a machine which grinds the outside rim. The twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks M-3s produced here carry 75 mm field guns and 37 mm anti-aircraft guns as well as several machine guns and other small arms

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Traveling overhead hoists are used throug...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Efficient control of the 75 mm field guns with which M-3 tanks are equipped is assured by these careful workers. They are finishing the boring bronze bushing for the gun mount. They are only two of the 10,000 skilled workers turning out these twenty-eight ton land battleships at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Efficient control of the 75 mm field guns...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixtures, for drilling and tapping holes in the drive housing for the Chrysler medium tank, the M-3. These twenty-eight ton steel monsters are being turned out in quantity by 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixture...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank gets a 75 mile test run over all sorts of rough terrain. The proving ground adjoins the huge Chrysler tank arsenal near Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton behemoths are produced. The view is of the rear of a tank

Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank ge...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 tanks as they come off the assembly lines at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. These twenty-eight ton behemoths are put through seventy-five miles of stiff testing before they are turned over to the government

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 t...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge ...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank gets a seventy-five mile test run over all sorts of rough terrain. The proving ground adjoins the huge Chrysler tank arsenal near Detroit where these twenty-eight ton behemoths are produced

Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank ge...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 tanks as they come off the assembly lines at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. These twenty-eight ton behemoths are put through seventy-five miles of stiff testing before they are turned over to the government

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 t...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks being turned out in Detroit at the Chrysler tank arsenal, are powered by nine cylinder, 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation type engines. This is a general view of the final engine assembly department

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Test is thorough at the proving grounds adjoining the Chrysler tank arsenal near Detroit. These are twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks, the steel monster which will make our mechanized forces the equal of any in the world in tank warfare. The lower of the two gun barrels is that of a 75 mm. gun, the upper of a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, both standard equipment on these tanks. In addition, four machine guns are mounted on each M-3

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Test is thorough at the proving grounds a...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This is one of the huge machine tools used in production of the M-3 tanks, the twenty-eight ton monsters built at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. This press works with a power of 450 tons, stamping out quarter inch steel floor plates

Chrysler tank arsenal. This is one of the huge machine tools used in p...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is the final check, before, this 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine is installed, not in a plane but in one of the army's huge M-3 tanks. The mechanics are employed at the Chrysler tank arsenal, on the outskirts of Detroit, where 10,000 men are engaged in the production of these twenty-eight ton monsters

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is the final check, before, this 400...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This worker is operating an eight-inch spindle machine designed for drilling and finish reaming of the show track and plates of an M-3 tank. Hundreds of specially designed machine tools are used in production of these twenty-eight ton steel giants, at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal, in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This worker is operating an eight-inch sp...

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The molten stream pouring from the thirty-five ton electric furnace is slag-waste material melted down during the process of refining. It is composed largely of limestone, which carries with it various other impurities in the metal. In the foreground is a huge ladle into which the molten steel will be poured after the slag has run off

The molten stream pouring from the thirty-five ton electric furnace is...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Waste is reduced to a minimum in the production of M-3 tanks. This worker at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton monsters are made, is one of a small Army whose job it is to collect metallic chips and cuttings from the various machining operations. This material is carefully segregated and sold for reuse

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Waste is reduced to a minimum in the prod...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Twelve of these bell type carburizing furnaces are in twenty-four hour operation at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. They are employed to barburize final drive gears, transmission parts and other parts of the twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks in production there

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Twelve of these bell type carburizing fur...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive. The furnace is tiled for the pourings. The flying sparks indicate the fluidity of the steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water ...

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Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy. Workers ramming in the bottom of a new thirty-five ton electric melting furnace which two days later was placed in operation to produce steel alloys from scrap iron and steel. This plant is being expanded at record speed to keep up with the even increasing needs of the national defense production program. Allegheny Ludlum, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy....

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank gets a seventy-five mile test run over all sorts of rough terrain. The proving ground adjoins the huge Chrysler tank arsenal near Detroit where these twenty-eight ton behemoths are produced

Chrysler tank arsenal. Off for a trial run. Each completed M-3 tank ge...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This is a milling operation. The four-pound metal piece with the aperture is actually the turret for a 37 mm anti-aircraft gun, part of the equipment for an M-3 tank. Extreme accuracy is required in the milling of these parts, because it is important that they be able to move freely. The gun is designed for straight away shooting, as well as serial shooting. The twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks are made in Detroit, at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. This is a milling operation. The four-pound met...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Headed for the oven, this rack of herringbone gears has been completed and is now awaiting the hear treatment which will harden the gears for use in the M-3 tank. Dozens of different types of gear arrangements are used in these twenty-eight ton monsters

Chrysler tank arsenal. Headed for the oven, this rack of herringbone g...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Thousands of rivets are used in the production of one of the huge thirty-eight ton M-3 tanks. Whenever possible rivets are replaced by welded sections, but much of the steel plate, such as the hull front plate on which these men are working, is too heavy for welding. These skilled workers are preparing the plate for riveting at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal, in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Thousands of rivets are used in the produ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A huge canvas is used to protect the Chrysler M-3 tanks enroute to various Army posts, or to ports for shipment overseas. These twenty-eight ton land battleships are about to leave the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). A huge canvas is used to protect the Chry...

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Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water from a thirty-five ton electric furnace. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive. The furnace is tiled for the pourings. The flying sparks indicate the fluidity of the steel

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. White-hot steel pours like water ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoining the Chrysler tank arsenal, near Detroit. This is one of the twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks, the steel monsters which will make our mechanized forces the equal of any in the world in tank warfare. The lower of the two barrels is that of a 75 mm warfare gun, the upper of a 47 mm. anti-aircraft gun, both standard equipment on these tanks. In addition, four machine guns are mounted on each M-3

Chrysler tank arsenal. Testing is through at the proving grounds adjoi...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant replenishment now that M-3 tanks have reached a mass production schedule. These are wheel suspension lever forgings, stored outside the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit where 10,000 workers are turning out twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals for the Army

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant re...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant replenishment now that M-3 tanks have reached a mass production schedule. These are wheel suspension lever forgings, stored outside the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit where 10,000 workers are turning out 28 ton rolling arsenals for the Army

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant re...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Every one of the 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit must know his job perfectly in order that there is no time lost as these twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks move on down the assembly line. These men are completing the final assembly of the rear hull plates

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Every one of the 10,000 workers at the hu...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The carburator is installed before this 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine is placed in one of the Army's huge M-3 tanks. This mechanic is employed at the Chrysler tank arsenal, on the outskirts of Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton tanks are being made

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The carburator is installed before this 4...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Turret rings for the Chrysler twenty-eight ton medium tanks are flame hardened. This skilled workers is one of the 10,000 producing M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Turret rings for the Chrysler twenty-eigh...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks being turned out in Detroit at the Chrysler tank arsenal, are powered by nine cylinder, 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind aviation type engines. These men are working on the engine wiring sub-assembly

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). M-3s, the twenty-eight ton "medium" tanks...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This is one of the huge machine tools used in production of the M-3 tanks, the twenty-eight ton monsters built at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. This press works with a power of 450 tons, stamping out quarter inch steel floor plates

Chrysler tank arsenal. This is one of the huge machine tools used in p...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of the huge Chrysler tank arsenal on the outskirts of Detroit. A worker is here installing a machine gun on an M-3 tank, one of the twenty-eight ton giants which mount four machine guns, two .50 calibre and two .30 calibre, a .75 mm. gun and a 37 mm. anti-aircraft gun, as well as an assortment of hand machine guns, and other weapons for use by the crew

Chrysler tank arsenal. Individual mobile arsenals are the outpost of t...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, thirty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed on automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The final cost of olive drab paint is applied by spraygun to the twenty-eight ton M-3 tank just before it leaves the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The final cost of olive drab paint is app...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The worker in the foreground is inspecting herringbone gears for Chrysler twenty-eight ton medium tanks, just after they have been finished, or "shaved." All parts of these tanks undergo constant inspection after each of the various operations which eventually result in the complete assembled tank

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The worker in the foreground is inspectin...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Thousands of rivets are used in the production of one of the huge thirty-eight ton M-3 tanks. Whenever possible rivets are replaced by welded sections, but throughout much of the tank, as in the side plates on which this riveter is working, the steel plate is too heavy for welding. The riveting itself, a twenty-five ton apparatus is carried overhead for convenience and quick handling

Chrysler tank arsenal. Thousands of rivets are used in the production ...

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers are turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. This man is checking the sub-assembly of a cupola to be installed on the top of a gun turret of one of these rolling arsenals

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers are turning ...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Thousands of rivets are used in the production of one of the huge thirty-eight ton M-3 tanks. Whenever possible rivets are replaced by welded sections, but throughout much of the tank, as in the side plates on which this riveter is working, the steel plate is too heavy for welding. The riveting itself, a twenty-five ton

Chrysler tank arsenal. Thousands of rivets are used in the production ...

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Washed ore being loaded into seventy ton cars for shipment to Duluth-Superior ore docks. Concentration plant at Bovey, Minnesota

Washed ore being loaded into seventy ton cars for shipment to Duluth-S...

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Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Soon, one a week like this! The third 10,000 ton vessel to be launched from new shipyard on the East coast slides down the ways into the water. From the present one-every-two-weeks schedule, these "Virginia Dare" type vessels will shortly be produced at double speed; 90 ships in 90 weeks is the goal of the Maritime Commission

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Soon, one a week like this! The third 1...

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Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Armor plate press operator. The man who handles the 2000 ton plate-finishing press at an Eastern mill has a very responsible position. Great skill and care are required as he operates the huge machine with only three levers

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, P...

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Seventy ton carloads of iron ore going out on the dock. Duluth, Minnesota

Seventy ton carloads of iron ore going out on the dock. Duluth, Minnes...

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Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be built for the Maritime Commission slides off the dock into the Atlantic. Launched just one year from the time construction work started on the shipyards, this 10,000 ton vessel is of the "Virginia Dare" type. In the future these ships will slide down the runway at the rate of one per week. From laying of keel to launching takes only 90 days

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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Loading iron ore into seventy ton cars. Danube Mine near Bovey, Minnesota

Loading iron ore into seventy ton cars. Danube Mine near Bovey, Minnes...

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The launching of a 10,000 ton ship. Soon, one a week like this! The third 10,000 ton vessel to be launched from new shipyard on the East coast slides down the ways into the water. From the present one-every-two-weeks schedule, these "Virginia Dare" type vessels will shortly be produced at double speed; 90 ships in 90 weeks is the goal of the Maritime Commission

The launching of a 10,000 ton ship. Soon, one a week like this! The th...

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Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be built for the Maritime Commission slides off the dock into the Atlantic. Launched just one year from the time construction work started on the shipyards, this 10,000 ton vessel is of the "Virginia Dare" type. In the future these ships will slide down the runway at the rate of one per week. From laying of keel to launching takes only 90 days

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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Washed ore being loaded into seventy ton cars for shipment to Duluth-Superior ore docks. Concentration plant at Bovey, Minnesota

Washed ore being loaded into seventy ton cars for shipment to Duluth-S...

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Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian defense work in New York. In the foreground is an outlet junction box, which distributes electric current from an Emergency Service truck over a wide area. Then there are floodlights, all sorts of firefighting tools and equipment to combat glassing of civilians. Power drills and saws, ten ton truck jacks, an acetylene burning outfit and every portable field telephones are included in their equipment, all of which is carried in the Emergency Service truck in the background

Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian...

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Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be built for the Maritime Commission slides off the dock into the Atlantic. Launched just one year from the time construction work started on the shipyards, this 10,000 ton vessel is of the "Virginia Dare" type. In the future these ships will slide down the runway at the rate of one per week. From laying of keel to launching takes only 90 days

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. The first of 90 sister ships to be buil...

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Seventy ton cars of iron ore in D.M. & I.R. railroad yards on way to Duluth ore docks

Seventy ton cars of iron ore in D.M. & I.R. railroad yards on way to D...

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Loading seventy ton cars with iron ore. Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minnesota

Loading seventy ton cars with iron ore. Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minneso...

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Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Carolina Shipbuilding Company. One year ago this bustling shipyard was a river bog. Partial view of newly-constructed shipyards on the south-east Atlantic Coast, which are soon to be turning out one 10,000 ton cargo vessel every week for 90 weeks, a goal set by the U.S. Maritime Commission

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Carolina Shipbuilding Company. One year...

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Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Completed semi-trailer with combination platform stake bodies are loaded into freight cars for delivery to Army Quartermaster Depots. These trailers are intended for general utility use in Army camps and supply depots. They carry a 7,000 ton payload

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia burning in the foreground. Smoke rolling out amidships shows where the most extensive damage occurred. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 to...

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Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian defense work in New York. In the foreground is an outlet junction box, which distributes electric current from an Emergency Service truck over a wide area. Then there are floodlights, all sorts of firefighting tools and equipment to combat glassing of civilians. Power drills and saws, ten ton truck jacks, an acetylene burning outfit and every portable field telephones are included in their equipment, all of which is carried in the Emergency Service truck in the background

Civilian defense. Here are some of the tools which will speed civilian...

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Molten metal from blast furnaces arrives at the open hearth foundry where it is placed in a 600 ton mixing furnace, which maintains a temperature of 2100 degrees fahrenheit. The mixing furnace acts as a sort of thermos bottle, or ore storage tank. A worker is shown here preparing an open hearth furnace for charging

Molten metal from blast furnaces arrives at the open hearth foundry wh...

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Loading seventy ton cars with iron ore, Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minnesota

Loading seventy ton cars with iron ore, Mahoning pit, Hibbing, Minneso...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Crew members throw overboard excess ice from the "Old Glory's" hold. Fishermen allow a proportion of the one ton of ice to three tons of fish. When the catch is unusally large, as on this trip, some ice is removed to make room for the fish

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Crew members throw overboard excess ice fro...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Maryland. Moored inboard of the USS Oklahoma, which capsized, the 31,500 ton Maryland was damaged slightly and was one of the first ships to rejoin the fleet after the Japanese attack

Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Maryland. Moored inboard of the USS Oklahoma...

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

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Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Hooks of 250 ton crane

Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Hooks of 2...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Symons crusher which reduces ore in size from a maximum of four inches to one inch before it is sent to the 20,000 ton ore storage bins

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Symons ...

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Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Riveter atop 250 ton crane

Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Riveter at...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. Seaman rescued. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia burning in the foreground. Smoke rolling out amidships shows where the most extensive damage occurred. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard

Pearl Harbor bombing. Seaman rescued. A small boat rescues a seaman fr...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Crew members throw overboard excess ice from "Old Glory's" hold. Fishermen allow a proportion of one ton of ice to three tons of fish. When the catch is unusually large, as on this trip, some ice is removed to make room for the fish

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Crew members throw overboard excess ice fro...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Sheet metal plane parts, previously cut on a router are pressed to all the required shapes on Masonite dies in a 3,000 ton hydraulic press in the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. Four crews of girls, one at each side, feed and operate the press. The actual forming operation takes only about ten seconds. 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. Sheet metal plane parts, pr...

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Victory food from American waters. Crew members throw overboard excess ice from Old Glory's hold. Fishmen allow a proportion of one ton of ice to three tons of fish. When the catch is unusually large as on this trip, some ice is removed to make room for the fish

Victory food from American waters. Crew members throw overboard excess...

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A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-five ton electric furnace where scrap metal and alloy materials are combined under terrific heat treatment, welder George Woolslayer tells Sergeant Vineyard and Chief Evans how this molten metal will be forged into the guns and tanks and ships with which they will beat the Axis. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Standing in the white-hot glare of a twenty-fi...

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Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Working on the cover of a 30,000 kilowatt generator under a 250 ton gantry crane

Cherokee Dam, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Working on...

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Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These are polymerizer tanks, which covert the raw materials of synthetic rubber into latex. Each of these tanks, at the B.F. Goodrich plant in Akron, Ohio, has a capacity of about one ton of latex daily

Synthetic rubber (Ameripol). These are polymerizer tanks, which covert...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. After the fire. Battered by aerial torpedoes and bomb hits, the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia (nearest ship) rests on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Fire following the explosions as well as oil flames from the nearby sunken USS Arizona added extensively to the damage. Noted the wrecked scout plane topside of gun turret at right and the overturned plane in the right hand corner. The battleship USS Tennessee is in the background

Pearl Harbor bombing. After the fire. Battered by aerial torpedoes and...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. Destruction. Smoke pours from the USS Shaw, bombed dry dock (right center) while in the foreground lies the capsized USS Oglala, a minelayer. To the left is the 10,000 ton cruiser, USS Helena, struck by an aerial torpedo on the starboard side. The concussion caused the Oglala, formerly berthed alongside the Helena to flood and she turned over after being brought to dock. At the extreme left, may be seen some of the superstructure of the USS Pennsylvania and at the right appears to be the USS Maryland burning

Pearl Harbor bombing. Destruction. Smoke pours from the USS Shaw, bomb...

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Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Shaw. Hit by three bombs which exploded her forward magazine, the 1,500 ton destroyer Shaw lies a twisted mass of wreckage in the heavily-bombed floating drydock YFD-2. Note the bow of the Shaw lying on its side in the foreground. Part of the drydock, at right, is under water while the other side is listing heavily. Both the Shaw and the drydock are now back in use

Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Shaw. Hit by three bombs which exploded her ...

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