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War production drive. The war production drive committee in the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company plant in Cleveland approved this pledge card. The signing of each card impressed the worker with his individual responsibility for the success of the drive. Many other plants have used similar pledges and many plants forward these signed pledges to Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), as a gesture of their commitment to increase production

War production drive. The war production drive committee in the Westin...

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Production. Diesel engines. Good patterns help the war production drive by speeding foundry and machine operations. A skilled pattern maker of a Midwest engine plant checks against blueprint measurements laid down by the design engineers

Production. Diesel engines. Good patterns help the war production driv...

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Dr. Bair aiding the war production drive by sawing steel billets is engineer, philosopher, psychologist, poet, inventor and sub-contractor! He lives with his son's family near the shop where he reduces steel billets to sizes required by a large forging plant

Dr. Bair aiding the war production drive by sawing steel billets is en...

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Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with his labor. Dr. Bair, former college professor and holder of eleven degrees, heads the war production drive as a sub-contractor. He saws steel bullets to required sizes on power saws

Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with hi...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lively discussion resulted when labor and management talked over production problems of the anthracite industry in Pennsylvania. This is one of the many labor-management anthracite committees in the state. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lively discussion resulted...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Alex Nordholm, Chief of Field Operations, War Production Drive, addressed servicemen and miners at the anthracite rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Alex Nordholm, Chief of Fiel...

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War production drive. The war production drive was incorporated in the "Keep 'Em Firing" campaign at the Oldsmobile plant. One method of calling attention to the drive is through the posting of news on the bulletin board. When a bulletin tells how a piece of equipment made in the plant figured in a campaign, enthusiasm runs high

War production drive. The war production drive was incorporated in the...

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War Production Board awards of merit. The War Production Drive of the WPB issues this award of individual production merit to workers in war plants who make effective improvements in their work to increase production

War Production Board awards of merit. The War Production Drive of the ...

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Steel production. The workers behind the steel industry's war production drive. Open hearth furnace men deserve the rest given them while the furnace is being charged. Republic, Youngstown

Steel production. The workers behind the steel industry's war producti...

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A group of men working in a coal mine. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men working in a coal mine. Office of War Information Photo...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lucky miner who received a 100 dollar war bond at one of the four anthracite miners' rallies in Eastern Pennsylvania on September 28th through October 1st. Only miners with one-hundred-percent work attendance could participate in the drawing

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lucky miner who received a...

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Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive, introduces the workers at a luncheon tendered to them by  Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. At left is Daniel W. Mallett, certificate winner from Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford, Illinois

Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production ...

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War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials. More than 400,000 suggestions to speed war production have been submitted to suggestion committees in war plants, and the outstanding ones tested and sent through more than 2,000 War Production Drive labor-management committees to the above Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. All ideas recognized by awards are made available to all American war plants and interested United Nations through the system of plow-back into industry as a further benefit to war production

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hou...

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War Production Board poster (WPB). "Beware Jap-Germs." This is one of a series of "Jap-Germs" posters that were spread through the Westinghouse plant at Bloomfield, New Jersey, under the auspices of the labor-management committee. The two-headed figure, the Jap-Germ, was featured in all posters of the series which warned against sabotage and encouraged the objectives of the war production drive

War Production Board poster (WPB). "Beware Jap-Germs." This is one of ...

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War production drive. It was a great day in the plant of the Northern Pump Company, Minneapolis, when the 100th gun mount was completed. It was decorated with a dummy barrel and festooned in red, white, and blue. Employees staged an impromptu celebration. Many more units have been produced since then and the labor-management committee has been credited with stepping up the rate of production

War production drive. It was a great day in the plant of the Northern ...

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Citation winners in the war production drive

Citation winners in the war production drive

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A soldier is shown how a miner swings a pick under a low ceiling in a Pennsylvania anthracite mine. Soldiers, sailors and miners attended the anthracite miners' rallies in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A soldier is shown how a min...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers saw how the production front fights when coal miners took them underground during the anthracite miners' rallies, September 28th through October 1st, at Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers saw how the product...

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Fighting the Axis--and fighting time. Every day counts as a battle in America's great war production drive with general delay leading Hitler's forces. The above photograph of a factory display board shows one of the ways in which this fact is being emphasized in the production trenches. So many days gone out of 1942, so many days remaining in which to turn out the planes and tanks and guns and ships for which the President called

Fighting the Axis--and fighting time. Every day counts as a battle in ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lively discussion resulted when labor and management talked over production problems of the anthracite industry in Pennsylvania. This is one of the many labor-management anthracite committees in the state. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A lively discussion resulted...

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Citation winner, Walter P. Hill, of the Wolverine Tube Division of the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, of Detroit, Michigan and William G. Marshall (right) Chairman of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winner, Walter P. Hill, of the Wolverine Tube Division of the...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Jeep headlights form V for victory at the night rally for Pennsylvania anthracite miners in Wilkes-Barre on September 29th. Similar rallies were held in other anthracite area cities from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Jeep headlights form V for v...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. The war is serious business to these representatives of the fighting and production fronts. Servicemen learned how hard coal is extracted from Eastern Pennsylvania mines at the anthracite rallies held September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. The war is serious business ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Nurse Anne Bernatitus spoke to anthracite miners on the crucial need for more coal production, at the anthracite rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, her hometown. The rally was one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania cities, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Nurse Anne Bernatitus spoke ...

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War production drive. This graphic display gave the worker in a war production plant an idea of the tremendous hitting power of a gun they were building. Displays like this help the workmen identify their product and themselves with the war and tend to increase the flow of production

War production drive. This graphic display gave the worker in a war pr...

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Dr Bair. Scientist becomes workman to aid the War Production Drive. Dr. Bair, holder of eleven college degrees and sixty U.S. patents, saws steel billets on a power hacksaw

Dr Bair. Scientist becomes workman to aid the War Production Drive. Dr...

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Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A former automotive worker in a converted auto plant sights through the precision-made breech of a machine gun for the Air Corps. One of thousands of examples of the way American enterprise threw its technical skill and its tremendous mass production facilities behind the war production drive. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers taught a coal miner how to operate a machine gun at an anthracite rally, one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania from September 28th through October 1st. Servicemen and miners attended the rallies and saw what each was contributing toward winning the war

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers taught a coal miner...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Miners and soldiers at the Pennsylvania anthracite rallies, September 30th through October 1st, learned what each is doing to help win the war. Two miners enjoy a ride in an army jeep

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Miners and soldiers at the P...

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Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount casting in a big Midwest plant backing the war production drive with all its facilities

Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount c...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to the nation's scrap pile was demonstrated by an enthusiastic miner during an anthracite rally--one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to ...

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War production drive. Bulletin boards, to be effective, must be interesting. Enlarged copies of dramatic cartoons and forceful messages on car pooling and rubber conservation make the bulletin board at the Northern Pump Company plant a highly important factor in the war production drive

War production drive. Bulletin boards, to be effective, must be intere...

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Slogan for a production army. 3. And Here's How We'll Win! This rough sketch of a sticker, designed at a suggestion by the War Production Board (WPB) in connection with the war production drive, condenses the whole spirit of the drive. Production will beat Axis and the men who have the above slogan pasted on the side of their machines know just how we're going to get that production

Slogan for a production army. 3. And Here's How We'll Win! This rough ...

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Keeping score in the war production drive. 2) Like to mop up on these babies? Well, that's the idea. Above is another suggested War Production Board (WPB) device to enable America's factory workers to know the score in their drive to erase these gentlemen. As plant production draws closer to its goal, Awful Adolf, Bungling Benito and Horrors Hirohito begin to disappear from the face of the blackboard as they will presently disappear from the face of the earth

Keeping score in the war production drive. 2) Like to mop up on these ...

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War production drive. Most war production drives feature the sale of defense bonds and stamps. This thermometer in the Nothern Pump Company plant stimulated the sale of bonds and made the men more conscious of the fact that they were in the war to win

War production drive. Most war production drives feature the sale of d...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A soldier wears a miners' cap and lamp before he descends the shaft into the mine. Servicemen at the four anthracite rallies in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st, saw first-hand how hard coal is mined

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A soldier wears a miners' ca...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers march in formation at the anthracite miners' rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. During the day miners showed the soldiers and sailors how hard coal is mined. Miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania anthracite area cities from September 28th through October 1st

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War production drive. The labor-management committee in the Minneapolis plant of the Northern Pump Company had trouble with absenteeism, especially Saturday nights and Sundays. To overcome this, door prizes were distributed among the men who worked on those shifts. This photograph shows the announcements of $1,250 in weekly prize money. Since this picture was taken, the plant has been placed on a full seven-day schedule and prizes are no longer necessary to keep all shifts operating

War production drive. The labor-management committee in the Minneapoli...

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War production drive poster: "Let's Kick Hitler Into Hell." This display was particularly effective in a Midwestern plant that is increasing production with a war production drive. As weekly production comes off the line, the foot rises and tumbles Hitler into the bucket when the quota is reached

War production drive poster: "Let's Kick Hitler Into Hell." This displ...

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Dr. Bair. Scientist contributes brawn as well as brain to the war production drive. Dr. Bair, holder of eleven college degrees and sixty U.S. patents, helps his son transfer steel billets to the power saws in his small machine shop

Dr. Bair. Scientist contributes brawn as well as brain to the war prod...

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A black and white photo of a man holding a newspaper. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a newspaper. Office of War In...

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War production drive. As part of the war production drive, streets at the Bloomfield, New Jersey Westinghouse plant were renamed MacArthur Avenue and MacArthur Plaza. A pretty girl is shown unveiling the street sign

War production drive. As part of the war production drive, streets at ...

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War production drive committee of technical experts. The war production drive's technical committee of experts, established to pass on war production suggestions for which Certificates of Individual Production Merit and Citations of Individual Production Merit will be awarded. Left to right: John L. Savage, Chief Designing Engineer, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado; Dr. Robert F. Blanks, Chief of Testing Laboratories, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado; William Plumer Hill, Sparrows Point, Maryland; Paul H. Stanley, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania; Whiting Williams, Cleveland, Ohio; William E. Warne, Assistant Chief, War Production Drive Headquarters; Ray Millholland, Chief, Technical Section, War Production Drive Headquarters; Henry C. Atkins, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana; Charles B. Francis, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dr. J. L. Bray, Purdue University, Indiana, and Dr. Joseph Rockoff, Dayton, Ohio. The first awards, announced today, September 8, 1942, were for Certificates of Individual Production Merit to sixteen men and one woman. The Committee also established another classification: honorable mention, which was awarded to sixteen other men

War production drive committee of technical experts. The war productio...

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Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with his labor. Dr. Bair, former college professor and holder of eleven degrees, heads the war production drive as a sub-contractor. He saws steel bullets to required sizes on power saws

Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with hi...

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Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with his labor. Dr. Bair, former college professor and holder of eleven degrees, heads the war production drive as a sub-contractor. He saws steel bullets to required sizes on power saws

Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with hi...

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Keeping score in the war production drive. 1) The old shell game, with a new twist! At any rate, Adolf is in the middle. The above target with its fascinating bulls-eye is one of the suggested factory "scoreboards" devised by the War Production Board (WPB)  to stimulate and inform workers who are in an allout to beat Hitler. The shells, or darts, are moved fractionally inward toward the target's center as the plant draws nearer to its production goal

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War production drive. "Bomb Tokyo with More Mounts." This unusual display, sponsored by the labor-mangagement committee in the Lamp Division of Westinghouse, was highly effective in the war production drive. As each section increased its production, its bomb was moved nearer the cowering Jap and departments raced to get their bombs in first

War production drive. "Bomb Tokyo with More Mounts." This unusual disp...

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War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials. More than 400,000 suggestions to speed war production have been submitted to suggestion committees in war plants, and the outstanding ones tested and sent through more than 2,000 War Production Drive labor-management committees to the above Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. All ideas recognized by awards are made available to all American war plants and interested United Nations through the system of plow-back into industry as a further benefit to war production. The Board for Individual Awards, composed of engineers and technical experts who contribute their time to evaluating production ideas, is shown at a Washington session. Left to right: Charles B. Francis, Carnegie, Illinois Steel Corporation; Dr. J.L. Bray, Purdue University; Paul H. Stanley, Pitcairn Auto-Gyro Company; L.A. Poole of War Production Drive's Awards Field Operations Branch; Whiting Williams of Cleveland, Ohio; James B. Gent, United Steel Workers (USW) and William P. Hill, Bethlehem Steel

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hou...

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Citation winners. President Roosevelt is shown here with the group, left to right: Herbert R. James, Christy Park Works, National Tube Company, McKeesport, Pennsylvania; George Smolarek, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan; Walter P. Hill, C&H Consolidated Copper Company, Detroit, Michigan; William G. Marshall, Director of War Production Drive; Edwin C. Tracy, RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey; Clinton R. Hanna, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company; Stanley Crawford, RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey; Joseph H. Kautisky, Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana; Daniel W. Mallett, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford, Illinois, Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), M.E. Butler, Stromberg- Carlson Manufacture Company, Rochester, New York

Citation winners. President Roosevelt is shown here with the group, le...

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War production drive. Most war production drives feature the sale of defense bonds and stamps. This thermometer in the Nothern Pump Company plant stimulated the sale of bonds and made the men more conscious of the fact that they were in the war to win

War production drive. Most war production drives feature the sale of d...

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Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount casting in a big Midwest plant backing the war production drive with all its facilities

Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount c...

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Daniel Walter Mallett, of the Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford, Illinois receives congratulations from William G. Marshall (left), Director of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winners. Citation winner, Daniel Walter Mallett, of the Mecha...

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Keeping score in the war production drive. 3) All squared  away for a quick trip to the gallows is our friend Adolf. Here's still another of the "scoreboards" suggested by the War Production Board (WPB) for use in plants which are taking part in the war production drive. Squares are interchanged and their changing pattern keeps pace with the factory's progress toward its goal. When that goal is reached, Herr Hitler's loud mouth has been effectively closed. Make it soon!

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War production drive. A feature of the war production drive in the Westinghouse Lamp Division plant was a portable booth which moved from department to department while a pretty girl, chosen partly because of her ability to wear a uniform well, sold war bonds and stamps and distributed production drive literature

War production drive. A feature of the war production drive in the Wes...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Army and U.S. Treasury flags fly alongside the stars and stripes at a Pennsylvania anthracite mine. Coal miners and servicemen joined in the rallies, September 30th through October 1st, in the anthracite region to learn what each is doing to help win the war

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Joseph H. Kautsky, an employee in the Dodge Plant of the Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, speaking on behalf of the Honor Group at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB) following the White House Ceremony. Seated left to right are; William G. Marshall, Chairman of the War Production Drive and Mr. Nelson

Citation winners. Citation winner, Joseph H. Kautsky, an employee in t...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers and sailors learned how miners produce anthracite at rallies held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st. Cities that participated were: Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, and Mount Carmel

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Soldiers and sailors learned...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower from various races for the war production drive. This skilled Negro worker is grinding profile and radius on the leading edge of a blade in a large Eastern propeller factory. Even the slightest mistake in this operation may ruin the entire blade. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower...

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Slogan for a production army. 2. The simple truth animates the above rough sketch of a sticker, another of those suggested by the War Production Board (WPB) in connection with the war production drive. Because every machine and every man engaged in turning out the weapons of war is "in action" as surely as though machine and man were in the frontline. Idea is for the promotion soldier to paste the sticker on his machine or on his tools as a reminder

Slogan for a production army. 2. The simple truth animates the above r...

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Production. Diesel engines. Old hands and green hands back America's war production drive. An apprentice learning to operate a screw machine at a Midwest plant producing diesel engines for the Navy

Production. Diesel engines. Old hands and green hands back America's w...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a store. Office of War Information Photograph

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Production. Diesel engines. Skilled pattern makers of a Midwest diesel plant check their work. Good patterns help the war production drive by speeding foundry and machine operations

Production. Diesel engines. Skilled pattern makers of a Midwest diesel...

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A black and white photo of two men shaking hands. Office of War Information Photograph

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"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michigan by Jake Sparling, sixty-year-old ex-lumberjack who saw his first lathe a year and a half ago, was named by Donald Nelson to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the war production drive. "The old gent and myself," says Sparling, "work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week," and produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. The money will buy war bonds and stamps

"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michig...

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War production drive. This huge thermometer outside a Westinghouse plant recorded the workers' purchase of bonds and stamps. Labor-management committees have reported that it is good psychology to display devices like this because both employers and employees are eager to show the public how good they are

War production drive. This huge thermometer outside a Westinghouse pla...

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Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive. Standing, is shown presenting the Honor Group at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. Left to right: Mrs. Marshall, Mr. Nelson, Joseph H. Kautsky, Dodge Plant Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, James A. Merrill, research chemist with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio; Edwin C. Tracy, field engineer for RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey, Clinton R. Hanna, research department manager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, and Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacture Company

Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to the nations scrap pile was demonstrated by an enthusiastic miner during an anthracite rally, one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to the nation's scrap pile was demonstrated by an enthusiastic miner during an anthracite rally, one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. No jeep, this underground car in a Pennsylvania anthracite mine. Soldiers learned how hard coal is mined at the anthracite miners' rallies held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. No jeep, this underground ca...

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Slogan for a production army. 1) What could be fairer than this? The above sketch for a sticker is one of a number designed by the War Production Board (WPB) in connection with the war production drive. Factory soldiers will paste such signs on their machines. Not a bad slogan for everybody these days

Slogan for a production army. 1) What could be fairer than this? The a...

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Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with his labor. Dr. Bair, former college professor and holder of eleven degrees, heads the war production drive as a sub-contractor. He saws steel bullets to required sizes on power saws

Dr. Bair. Philosopher and scientist backs war production drive with hi...

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War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by the labor-management committee in a factory making munitions. As each of the three divisions turned out products, the shells rose on the scoreboard. As each shell rose, the trousers on the corresponding figure fell

War production drive. This mechanical bulletin board was sponsored by ...

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A black and white photo of two men shaking hands. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men shaking hands. Office of War Inform...

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Citation winners in the war production drive

Citation winners in the war production drive

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Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive. Standing, is shown presenting the Honor Group at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony. Left to right: Mrs. Marshall, Mr. Nelson, Joseph H. Kautsky, Dodge Plant Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, James A. Merrill, research chemist with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio; Edwin C. Tracy, field engineer for RCA Manufacturing Company, Camden, New Jersey, Clinton R. Hanna, research department manager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, and Madison E. Butler, assistant chief inspector for the Stromberg-Carlson Telephone Manufacture Company

Citation winners. William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production ...

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War production drive. One of the discoveries made by labor-management committees is that posters and streamers are more effective if they are on moving objects. The committee in the Minneapolis plant of the Northern Pump Company keeps effective streamers on the forty-ton cranes

War production drive. One of the discoveries made by labor-management ...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Alex Nordholm, Chief of Field Operations, War Production Drive, addressed servicemen and miners at the anthracite rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Alex Nordholm, Chief of Fiel...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Anthracite mine workers at a war bond rally. Such rallies were held at many points in Eastern Pennsylvania from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Anthracite mine workers at a...

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and William G. Marshall, Director of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winners. Citation winner, Clinton E. Hanna, (right) of the We...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the production front is this pneumatic drill that anthracite miners use to produce hard coal. Servicemen learned how anthracite is mined at a miners' rally in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Anthracite miners' rallies were held in four Pennsylvania cities from September 28th through October 1st

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. A fighting tool of the produ...

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A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper. Office of War In...

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A black and white photo of a man on a motorcycle. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man on a motorcycle. Office of War Inform...

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War production drive. This graphic display gave the worker in a war production plant an idea of the tremendous hitting power of a gun they were building. Displays like this help the workmen identify their product and themselves with the war and tend to increase the flow of production

War production drive. This graphic display gave the worker in a war pr...

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A group of men working in a coal mine. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men working in a coal mine. Office of War Information Photo...

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Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount casting in a big Midwest plant backing the war production drive with all its facilities

Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount c...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Smiling with pleasure, a coal miner reads the paycheck enclosure which explains the importance to the war effort of all-out production. He extracts anthracite, or hard coal, from an Eastern Pennsylvania mine

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Smiling with pleasure, a coa...

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War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hours and critical materials. More than 400,000 suggestions to speed war production have been submitted to suggestion committees in war plants, and the outstanding ones tested and sent through more than 2,000 War Production Drive labor-management committees to the above Board for Individual Awards at War Production Drive headquarters in Washington. All ideas recognized by awards are made available to all American war plants and interested United Nations through the system of plow-back into industry as a further benefit to war production

War workers' ideas. Jury votes on war workers' ideas that save man-hou...

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Citation winners. Citation winner, Daniel Walter Mallett, of the Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford, Illinois receives congratulations from William G. Marshall (left), Director of the War Production Drive, who presented the workers to President Roosevelt

Citation winners. Citation winner, Daniel Walter Mallett, of the Mecha...

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Citation winners in the war production drive

Citation winners in the war production drive

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A group of people standing on top of a field. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of people standing on top of a field. Office of War Informatio...

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A black and white photo of two men in suits. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two men in suits. Office of War Information...

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Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower from various races for the war production drive. This skilled Negro worker is grinding profile and radius on the leading edge of a blade in a large Eastern propeller factory. Even the slightest mistake in this operation may ruin the entire blade. Curtiss-Wright Propeller Division. Caldwell, New Jersey

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. America draws its manpower...

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A couple of men standing next to each other near a machine - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other near a machine - FSA / Off...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Coal mining is serious business, an army sergeant learns from two anthracite miners as they prepare to descend into the mine. At Pennsylvania miners' rallies, on September 28th through October 1st, servicemen learned how hard coal is extracted beneath the earth's surface

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Coal mining is serious busin...

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War production drive. Bulletin boards, to be effective, must be interesting. Enlarged copies of dramatic cartoons and forceful messages on car pooling and rubber conservation make the bulletin board at the Northern Pump Company plant a highly important factor in the war production drive

War production drive. Bulletin boards, to be effective, must be intere...

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War production drive. The labor-management committee in the Minneapolis plant of the Northern Pump Company keeps scoreboards in every department to keep employees informed of the progress of the war production drive. This effective scoreboard is in the gunmount welding department

War production drive. The labor-management committee in the Minneapoli...

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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Servicemen working together! Soldiers, sailors and marines went into Pennsylvania mines during the anthracite rallies, September 30th through October 1st, and saw how hard coal is extracted from beneath the earth's surface

War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Servicemen working together!...

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Original posters designed by plant employees are frequently used by labor-management committees in the war production drive. This poster was executed by a worker at the E.I. DuPont DeNemours plant, Charleston, West Virginia

Original posters designed by plant employees are frequently used by la...

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A crowd of people standing around a man holding a sign - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A crowd of people standing around a man holding a sign - FSA / Office ...

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Keeping score in the war production drive. 1) The old shell game, with a new twist! At any rate, Adolf is in the middle. The above target with its fascinating bulls-eye is one of the suggested factory "scoreboards" devised by the War Production Board (WPB) to stimulate and inform workers who are in an allout to beat Hitler. The shells, or darts, are moved fractionally inward toward the target's center as the plant draws nearer to its production goal

Keeping score in the war production drive. 1) The old shell game, with...

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