Transportation. Shipping rails east. Flat cars in central Iowa stacked with rails ready to be shipped eastward, where transportation demands are heaviest

Transportation. Freight car movements. With transportation assuming vast new importance in wartime America, movement of freight cars must be accomplished with the fullest efficiency and speed. Loss and diversion of ocean carriers which served our seaboard cities have thrown an enormous burden upon t

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Graded scrap metal, collected from Midwest homes and farms, is received at a Chicago steel mill where it will be processed into weapons of war

Salvage. Farm scrap. Scrap today, armaments tomorrow. Collected from dozens of Michigan farms, this pile of valuable scrap metal awaits transport to a steel mill where it will be melted down into weapons for America's fighting men

Big Inch pipes on railroad tracks

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. Lineup of charging boxes awaiting the signal to start on the journey to the furnace floor of a Chicago steel mill. The scrap will be unloaded into electric furnaces, for processing into war weapons

Salvage. Farm scrap. Hay rakes, farm wheels, hot-water tanks and auto springs long past their prime are contributed by Michigan farmers to the scrap-collection drive. All the scrap metal which America's farmers can no longer use, will be put to immediate and vital use in the war effort

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A worker guides the magnet which unloads steel scrap from open freight cars to the waiting charging boxes in a Chicago steel mill. Drawn by an engine, these boxes will be brought directly to the furnace room, where they will be processed into steel for guns and ships

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