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1933 - Standing before 74 tons of iron and copper are Professor M. Stanley Livingston (left) now of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence. Magnet development has continued to expanded more nearly to its capacity, producing the new nuclear particles known as neutrons in quantities sufficient for actual human therapy. Negative envelope dated February 1, 1940. Principal Investigator/Project: Analog Conversion Project [Photographer: Donald Cooksey]

1933 - Standing before 74 tons of iron and copper are Professor M. Sta...

Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boilers represent a potential source of tons of steel for national defense production. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel scrap that can be converted into steel to alleviate threatened shortages of this vital defense material (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boiler...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

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

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

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Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boilers represent a potential source of tons of steel for national defense production. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel scrap that can be converted into steel to alleviate threatened shortages of this vital defense material (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway,

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. This gaunt row of discarded boiler...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building interior, power generator, furnace, boiler, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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

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

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A scene in the Ford foundry, Detroit, Michigan. The foundry covers seventeen acres of land. Twenty-five tons of molten metal can be poured here every twenty-four hours. Worker in this photo is filling piston moulds. Twenty thousand pistons are cast every eight hours

A scene in the Ford foundry, Detroit, Michigan. The foundry covers sev...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel materials that can be converted into steel for the national defense production program (U.S., Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

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The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons of rubber, enough to makes 17,000 tires, are used in the construction of each of these battleships. Tons more are needed for the naval planes that are making history over the world. Medical and communication requirements--and countless other needs of the Navy--are met

The Navy uses enormous amounts of rubber. At least seventy-five tons o...

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Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant canned 2400 tons of salmon this fall

Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant ...

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Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies of junked automobiles, rotting in ugly auto graveyards from coast to coast. They will now provide some of the millions of tons of scrap steel so badly needed for defense production. They are baled up in this manner to prevent their burning away when they are thrown into the blazing inferno of an open hearth steel furnace. Open hearth furnaces are fed with approximately 50 percent scrap steel

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies ...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

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Soldiers inspecting new trackless tank during demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia. Tank was manufactured by the Trackless Tank Corporation of New York, and submitted to the Ordnance Department, U.S. Army, for inspection. Preliminary tests indicate that the tank may be adaptable for reconnaissance purposes, possibly replacing scout cars. Tank weighs 10 tons. During initial, brief tests at Fort Knox, Kentucky, it made 45 miles an hour across rough country, with a 37 mm gun and two machine guns mounted in its turret; its designer says it can travel 85 mph on level ground. It is powered by a 250 horsepower diesel engine, and carries 1/2-inch armor. Tentative plans of the Army call for a redesign of the superstructure for better arming of the tank

Soldiers inspecting new trackless tank during demonstration at Fort My...

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This is the home port for twenty-nine ships in the Ford fleet. Coal, limestone and iron ore are basic products in the automotive industry. Storage bins at the plant here have a capacity of two million tons. Ford River Rouge plant, May 1941

This is the home port for twenty-nine ships in the Ford fleet. Coal, l...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast iron and steel materials that can be converted into steel for the national defense production program (U.S., Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. House wreckers supply tons of cast...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

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A white-hot steel ingot riding into the blooming mill. This ingot weighs about 2 1/2 tons. From it, bar and tool stock will be made. Ford River Rouge plant

A white-hot steel ingot riding into the blooming mill. This ingot weig...

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Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant canned 2400 tons of salmon this fall

Columbia River Packing Association Plant, Astoria, Oregon. This plant ...

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The power house is a vital part of the Ford River Rouge plant. Highest output per 24 hours: 4,071,060 kilowatt hours. Fuel consumption is 2500 tons of coal per day. Steam production at this fuel rate is 60,000,000 pounds

The power house is a vital part of the Ford River Rouge plant. Highest...

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Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn out automobiles are stripped of usable parts. Non-ferrous materials are burned out and the steel chassis and bodies are sent on to scrap iron and steel dealers. Such yards as these supply tons of scrap iron, steel and rubber yearly which is now being used to alleviate shortages in vital defense materials (U.S. Route 1, Baltimore-Washington Highway, August 1941)

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. Auto "graveyards" where old worn o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300...

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Colonel N.A. Ryan, acting chief of transportation, U.S. Army European theater of operations, and Major General D.J. McMullen, D.S.O., C.B.E., director of transportation, British Army, leaning out of the locomotive which was among the first of a shipment to arrive in Great Britain. Small in comparison to most American locomotives, it weighs only 130 tons

Colonel N.A. Ryan, acting chief of transportation, U.S. Army European ...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in the Salinas Valley of California. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Packing guayule seedling as they are dug from the nursery beds. The roots are packed in damp shingle-tow (cedar shavings), in which condition the plants may be shipped for long distances. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Packing guayule seedling as they are...

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

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Packing guayule seedling as they are dug from the nursery beds. The roots are packed in damp shingle-tow (cedar shavings), in which condition the plants may be shipped for long distances. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Packing guayule seedling as they are...

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Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Railroad yard full of ore cars, each of which contains fifty tons of copper ore

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Railroad ya...

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Victory food from American waters. Decks are convered with tons of rosefish as the Old Glory reaches its capacity load. After two and one half days of fishing, a catch of 85,000 pounds has been hauled in

Victory food from American waters. Decks are convered with tons of ros...

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Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Mich...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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Olives are washed and warmed before they are crushed and pressed for their oil. Lindsay, California. Half of California's annual crop of 44,000 tons of olives is used in the production of oil

Olives are washed and warmed before they are crushed and pressed for t...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tons of cabbage to be dehydrated at plant in Turlock, California

Tons of cabbage to be dehydrated at plant in Turlock, California

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Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, Colmar Manor, Maryland were withheld from the war effort. Donovan, the owner, refused to sell at established junk prices. The material has since been requisitioned by the U.S. government

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto gra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule nursery beds. This machine mows the seedlings off to a uniform height for ease in digging and packing. The tops are collected in a bin on the machine and disposed of outside of the nursery. The tops are worthless for rubber production. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule n...

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

New British battleship "Howe." The "Howe," one of the new British first-class battleships recently put in commission. It has a displacement of 35,000 tons and a speed of more than thirty knots

New British battleship "Howe." The "Howe," one of the new British firs...

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Conversion. Automobile plant. Workmen inspect the powerful crank of a DF-1600-60 press that weighs eighty-seven tons. The machine is being cleaned and adjusted before moving to its new assignment of drawing army truck parts in a former automobile factory. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Workmen inspect the powerful crank of a ...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here a junk dealer unloads his truck in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills (Carnegie Steel, Chicago, Illinois)

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

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Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons of rubber were used in such erasers -- the same quantity as would make 200,000 army gas masks

Saboteur! Stop destroying that eraser, young lady. Last year 180 tons ...

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Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Hundreds of junked cars, containing tons of metal and rubber scrap were denied to the war effort by the Lenox Motor Company whose auto graveyard is at Colmar Manor, Maryland. Donovan, the owner, refused to sell at established junk prices. The material has since been requisitioned by the U.S. government

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Hundreds of junked cars, cont...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working in a guayule bed. The digger is a four foot long blade which is drawn through the ground under the plants, cutting the roots loose and uprooting the plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working i...

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Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the s...

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Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the scrap. Covering well over an acre of ground, this automobile graveyard in Chicago holds tons of vital scrap metal and rubber for which Uncle Sam has urgent need in the manufacture of armaments and other war materials

Salvage. Chicago automobile graveyard. Idle scrap: it belongs in the s...

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Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second from left) explains to Brooklyn housewives, whom she has enlisted in tin can salvage drive, how to prepare collected tin cans for the Department of Sanitation trucks. Since March 15th, she has organized twenty-five large apartment houses in the Borough Park section into units for salvage work. In each house a squad of three women, tenants in the apartment, collect once weekly from every housewife, tin cans accumulated during the previous week. In the cellar, each squad processes the cans, removes labels and bottoms, flattens them and deposits them into ashcans and barrels for pickup by department of sanitation trucks. Today twenty-five tons of empty processed cans have been collected through the efforts of Mrs. Kaplitt and other housewives in the territory across the East River. Left to right: Mrs. T. Cohen, Mrs. B. Kaplitt, Mrs. H. Mars, Mrs. T. Rubins

Mrs. Blossom Kaplitt, of Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York (second fro...

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Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent to every part of the country and to almost every country in the Western hemisphere where they are needed in war production factories. These giants supply the power essentials to the production of ships and guns and tanks, as well as all other war essentials. Cranes capable of handling seventy-five tons hoist completed transformers to flatcars. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent t...

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Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four inches tall, looks small indeed as he uses air pressure to clean the lid of the world's largest vulcanizing unit in an Eastern tire plant. The top section of this mold being prepared to vulcanize a large bullet-sealing gasoline tank, weighs sixteen tons and can also be used to vulcanize tires over ten feet in diameter

Giant tire manufacturer. This husky workman, standing six feet four in...

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

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working in a guayule bed. The digger is a four foot long blade which is drawn through the ground under the plants, cutting the roots loose and uprooting the plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working i...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Lutz, butcher, who also writes both hymns and patriotic songs, some of which he has sent to Army camps. He collected five tons of scrap

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Benjamin Lutz, butcher, who also writes both hym...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Many minds, many heads, many skills went into the construction of this large, hydraulically-operated milling machine. The slender shaft just below the figure "100" in the upper right is a tracer finger, so called because it feels its way gently around the edge of a pattern so that the cutters reproduce the pattern exactly in tough steel. This tracer, so sensitive that it can be deflected with the edge of a piece of cardboard, controls the movement of tons of machinery exerting fifteen or twenty horsepower of cutting force

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Many minds, many he...

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Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. It's no good under the ground, but it can be used to smash the Axis. Thousands of tons of buried trolley tracks are being unearthed these days to answer Uncle Sam's call for scrap. An Asheville, North Carolina machine shop operator is shown here demonstrating his "railjerk" which he claims can remove a mile of track a day

Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. It's no good under ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. All scrap in the machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated, is placed in containers for reclamation at the salvage yard. Tons of material are reclaimed here daily. 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. All scrap in the machine sh...

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Another blow for Victory. A cowl for an Army jeep is stamped from a flat steel sheet in one of the world's largest automotive plants. The giant 126-ton Bliss double-action press, exerting 350 tons pressure on the sheet, forms a cowl in one operation. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Another blow for Victory. A cowl for an Army jeep is stamped from a fl...

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Victory food from American waters. Typical pier hand on docks at Gloucester, Massachusetts. A famous fishing center for centuries, this port now ships thousands of tons of fish to the Army and Navy

Victory food from American waters. Typical pier hand on docks at Glouc...

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Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successful rural scrap collection project at Dexter, Michigan. A collection of scrap metal and rubber from the Wright farm is being unloaded at the collection center at the start of a drive that brought many tons of reclaimable materials from local farmyards

Rural scrap collection. War Production Board (WPB) sponsors a successf...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in the Salinas Valley of California. Note the abundant seed stalks occurring on these irrigated plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in...

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

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars containing fifty tons of copper ore are dumped by an unloading mechanism into a 200 ton hopper

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars contai...

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

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in the Salinas Valley of California. Note the abundant seed stalks occurring on these irrigated plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in...

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View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collected over a period of two weeks in all the boroughs of the city of New York by Department of Sanitation trucks. Men of the department work on their own time to collect the critical war metal

View of filled garbage scows holding 600 tons of empty tin cans collec...

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Striking telling blows at the Axis. Each blow of this machine stamps out a cowl for an army jeep from a flat steel sheet under 350 tons prssure. The 126-ton Bliss double-action press is regular equipment of one of the world's largest automobile plants. Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

Striking telling blows at the Axis. Each blow of this machine stamps o...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing the sand line is one of the chores that fall to the "tallow pot," or firemen of a railway locomotive. In addition jobs like this, the "tallow pot" serves up an average of eight to ten tons of coal each eight hour day to the big "hog" or locomotive. This man fires a train carrying materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Transportation within the mine is as carefully planned and coordinated as in a busy freight yard. A system of block signals and switches and miles of track make it possible to move out thousands of tons of coal a day

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Irrigating a two year old field of guayule in the Salinas Valley of California. Guayule will grow on dry land in this section, but produces rubber quicker when irrigated. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Irrigating a two year old field of g...

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

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mature guayule shrubs, about five years old. In harvesting, the entire shrub is dug up since rubber occurs in both roots and branches. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mature guayule shrubs, about five ye...

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

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent to every part of the country and to almost every country in the Western hemisphere where they are needed in war production factories. These giants supply the power essentials to the production of ships and guns and tanks, as well as all other war essentials. Cranes capable of handling seventy-five tons hoist completed transformers to flatcars. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent t...

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Conservation rubber tires. Scenes such as this become less and less frequent as Uncle Sam pushes his all-out drive to conserve rubber. Many of these discarded tires could easily be reconditioned and used for many thousands of miles. Other discards are immediately baled up and reused by rubber plants. Two tons of reclaimed rubber will go as far as one ton of crude rubber

Conservation rubber tires. Scenes such as this become less and less fr...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A special small power cultivator cleans the space between the rows, but the rows themselves must be weeded by hand. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provided a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A spec...

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

Old rails for new shells. Abandoned street car tracks are being pulled up in Washington, D.C., to add badly needed steel to the nation's scrap pile. Although some of the rails will be reused, hundreds of tons will go into steel furnaces to make new war materials. As the rails are anchored firmly, much steel is recovered when they are dug up

Old rails for new shells. Abandoned street car tracks are being pulled...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule nursery beds. This machine mows the seedlings off to a uniform height for ease in digging and packing. The tops are collected in a bin on the machine and disposed of outside of the nursery. The tops are worthless for rubber production. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule n...

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Tons of big guns for the Navy. Row of partly-finished guns in an eastern Navy yard. Heavy guns have to be shifted by overhead pulleys. This is part of the program to provide a two-ocean Navy

Tons of big guns for the Navy. Row of partly-finished guns in an easte...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. This may look like one of the games you used to play with your erector set, but that tank, which is about to be deposited on a railroad flat car by a fifty-ton crane weighs more than twenty-eight tons. It's one of the new M-3s being built for the Army by the Chrysler tank arsenal on the outskirts of Detroit

Chrysler tank arsenal. This may look like one of the games you used to...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Workmen removing guayule seedling from a nursery beds after the mechanical digger has uprooted them. The seedlings are graded, packed, and transported to field plantations. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Workmen removing guayule seedling fr...

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Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, Colmar Manor, Maryland were withheld from the war effort. Donovan, the owner, refused to sell at established junk prices. The material has since been requisitioned by the U.S. government

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto gra...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working in a guayule bed. The digger is a four foot long blade which is drawn through the ground under the plants, cutting the roots loose and uprooting the plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working i...

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

When sheet metal parts are cut on the router, they go to the hydropress department where they are placed on masonite dies and pressed to the proper shape under 3000 tons pressure

When sheet metal parts are cut on the router, they go to the hydropres...

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Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Straight into the roaring flames of the cupola, the operator moves his crane with the loaded basket. With this equipment, one operator can handle many tons of material an hour, keep cupolas in continuous operation, producing many tons of molten iron per hour. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Straight into the r...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Straight into the roaring flames of the cupola, the operator moves his crane with the loaded basket. With this equipment, one operator can handle many tons of material an hour, keep cupolas in continuous operation, producing many tons of molten iron per hour. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Straight into the r...

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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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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical harvesting seed collector from a guayule nursery bed. The plant grows a considerable seed crop during the first year. This machine brushes the seed off the seed stalks into containers. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical harvesting seed collector...

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

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mature guayule shrubs, about five years old. In harvesting, the entire shrub is dug up since rubber occurs in both roots and branches. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mature guayule shrubs, about five ye...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young field of guayule at the end of the first growing season in the Salinas Valley of California. Plants were transplanted from the nursery in May; picture taken the following fall. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young field of guayule at the end ...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working in a guayule bed. The digger is a four foot long blade which is drawn through the ground under the plants, cutting the roots loose and uprooting the plants. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical seedling digger working i...

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

Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Use of wood in the construction of Army chapels is shown here, one of 570 similar structures erected since last fall. All of them were built with wood trusses like these or with glued laminated wood arches, saving many tons of structural steel for more strategic purposes. New methods for timber joints have made it possible to reduce the amount of material needed for trusses and other load-bearing members

Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Use of wood in the constructi...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young field of guayule at the end of the first growing season in the Salinas Valley of California. Plants were transplanted from the nursery in May; picture taken the following fall. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young field of guayule at the end ...

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

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelter in which pure tin is extracted from the raw ore of South American mines. Here tin is drawn off into floats which weigh about eighteen tons when filled. The metal is then conveyed to polling kettles, where dross or skimmings are drawn off and forwarded to another furnace for re-melting

Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...

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A poster comes to life. These piles of iron and steel collected from Uncle Sam's salvage drive are fast "getting in the scrap." Steelworker George Woolslayer shows Chief John Evans (left) and Sergeant French Vineyard one of the scrap yards at Allegheny- Ludlum where tons of old metal await loading into open-hearth furnaces. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. These piles of iron and steel collected from U...

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This huge hydropress is operated day and night by women employees. Thousands of sheet metal parts are formed daily on this press. Worked from four sides using same die. Beds with metal to be shaped is rolled into place under hydraulic press. 3000 tons total pressure

This huge hydropress is operated day and night by women employees. Tho...

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Great Falls, Montana, Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire rods are stacked in warehouse by this machine which can stack several tons at once

Great Falls, Montana, Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire rods are s...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in the Salinas Valley of California. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A two year old guayule plantation in...

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

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young guayule shrub about two years old. Note the numerous seed stalks of the plant which have been grown under irrigation. Guayule plantings will produce a estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. A young guayule shrub about two year...

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Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Old tracks for new guns. One of the ways many American cities are responding to Uncle Sam's call for scrap is by pulling out abandoned trolley tracks. This apparatus, developed by an Asheville, North Carolina machine shop operator, is being used to tear out the old buried tracks in his city. With three men, the device can remove twenty-five tons of rail per day

Buried trolley tracks salvaged to aid war program. Old tracks for new ...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A special small power cultivator cleans the space between the rows, but the rows themselves must be weeded by hand. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in 1943, provided a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Weeding guayule nursery beds. A spec...

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Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing the sand line is one of the chores that fall to the "tallow pot," or fireman, of a railway locomotive. In addition to jobs like this, the "tallow pot" serves up an average of eight to ten tons of coal each eight hour day to the big "hog," or locomotive. This man fires a train carrying materials for the building of TVA's Watts Bar Dam

Tennessee Valley Authority. Railroad crews at Watts Bar Dam. Clearing ...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical harvesting seed collector from a guayule nursery bed. The plant grows a considerable seed crop during the first year. This machine brushes the seed off the seed stalks into containers. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Mechanical harvesting seed collector...

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Decks are covered with tons of rosefish as the "Old Glory" reaches its capacity load. After two and one half days of fishing, a catch of 85,000 pounds has been hauled in

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Decks are covered with tons of rosefish as ...

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