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Table of Contents: Unreasoning fear of explosives; Dropping a smelter stack with dynamite; Dynamite digs quarter-mile ditch in split second; Accident insurance by the yard; Veneering with Pyralin; Dumorite takes a hand at road building; Know the...
Some of the 8,000 paratroopers dropping into the drop zone from air transports. Elevation of planes at about 800 feet to 1000 feet. A point of interest- there were no fatalities during the entire day.
Carrie Furnaces, Homestead Plant, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company, Pittsburgh District, Pennsylvania. Solidified pigs dropping into a railroad car for shipping. In the background to the left is a double strand pig machine that is without the...
Text from back of image: "A military guard of honor flanking the casket containing the body of Wiley Post, as it lay in state at the state capitol, in Oklahoma City, where thousands filed past to pay last respects to the greatest flier. Planes flew...