Text from back of image: "To prove that Arveta Robner(?), 15 year old schoolgirl, was in no danger when she fell 1,000 feet at Roosevelt Field without her parachute opening, Henry Bushmeyer today took two jumps entangling himself in his 'chute...
Text from back of image: "An autogiro plane, recently brought to this country from England by Harold Pitcairn, president of the Pitcairn Aviation Company, known as the Cierva 'Windmill Craft,' with C. F. Faulkner at the controls, attained an...
There are 887 armor piercing 20 mm cannon shells visible in this picture, hardly more than one third the completely load for the three pods (under Navy A4 jet) of the HIPEG gun system developed by Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division, Culver...
Main reading room of the Lavoisier Library. The library contains 55,000 volumes and bound journals, about 1,000 current techinical publications and trade journals and some 600,000 patents.
Williamson WV-Some three thousand coal cars, all empty, await termination of the coal strike at Williamson WV, center of one of the nation's richest bituminous coal fields. Loaded, these cars would hold approximately 150,000 tons of coal....
The Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) and plastic...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
Night and day, the Sabine River Works of the DuPont Company, built on a 1,000 acre tract three miles southwest of Orange, employs 1,700 men and women in the manufacture of chemical intermediates for nylon as well as methanol (synthetic wood...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Agriculture; Textile industry; Paper industry; Plastics industry;
Table of Contents: War on spores; A two-way winner; More peroxide from less power; They tried to swivel it to death; Big catch for Nova Scotia; DuPont's newest water repellent; A dream come true; What's new; Give books this Christmas; 1,000...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; War work; Defense industry; Libraries; Camouflage (Military science);
Table of Contents: Chemicals from salt work for victory behind the scenes; With the colors; 1,000 feet per minute; Books or bunsen burners; Tow lines for air transport; Propellers for mustangs; What's new.
Letter from Henry Hoyt, a member of the Knickerbocker Club to William du Pont returning a check for $1,000 that du Pont had submitted for lifetime membership in the club. The Knickerbocker Club, a private gentleman's social club in New York City,...
Smithtown PA- Meet 52 year old Victor Pegoris, bituminous coal miner- a superman who hasn’t taken a day off this century since January 1, 1940 and has a letter from his boss, President of Pittsburgh Coal Company to prove it. Victor is a 186 lb...
Above is pictured the beautiful 13th century cathedral at Rheims which was terribly damaged by the German bombs and long range guns during the World War and which is now being restored to its former state of beauty. A donation of $1,000,000 was...
Boeing 40-B2's of this type carried mail and passengers between San Francisco and Chicago in 1927 on the 1,918-mile route of Boeing Air Transport, a predecessor company of United Air lines which marks its 25th anniversary this year. Payload of the...
For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
June Croll, young girl communist leader shown addressing part of the 1,000 communists who marched on City Hall, New York City July 7 to demand that the distribution of food and clothing to unemployed workers be not discontinued. Police were...
