Rather than wait two months for the delivery of a machine which would burr holes on the inside of a shell booster, the engineering department of a Midwestern plant built its own machine in thirty hours. A novel feature of the homemade machine is the use of a dental burr, which in peacetime is used t

To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster, a plant superintendent built this machine. It makes possible a speedy checking of thread accuracy in contrast to the old hand method. The inventor made the machine out of a fan base and a couple pieces of machine steel in a matte

A part of the shop in a Midwestern company which has converted its machines and trained labor forces

Production. Aircraft engines.

Production. Shell loading. These girls are "staking" fuses in the assembly of artillery shells in a large Midwest loading plant. In the manufacture and loading of percussion caps--an operation performed in a large division of the plant--ninety percent of the employees are women. Army officers say th

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. A man-sized machine and a man-sized job are effectively handled by 21-year-old Virginia Grochowski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Employed by a Midwest supercharger plant, this former hosiery mill worker operates these giant drill presses as expertly as any man. A

Women aircraft workers. Women are doing men's jobs and beating their production records in a West Coast airplane factory. Feminine operators of tapping machines in this plant have made 400 more tapping operations in the seven and one half hour swingw shift than men employed on the eight hour day shi

Her mind's on her work - and on her country. That small flag tells the story of this young woman's absorption in her job. Employed by a midwest drill and tool plant, she's grinding points on drills which will be used in the production of America's ships and planes and guns.

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the twenty-five cutters for burrs before inserting it in the inside of a 105 mm. howitzer in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company. Her son is in the Army; her husband and daughter are in war work Creator(s): Hollem