Schenectady NY- How the M-7 tank killers built here are now spearheading the Allied rout of Rommel was described here today by Major General Russell L. Maxwell, Commander of US armed forces in the Middle East who directed US North African Military...
The commission house district in Boston, showing traffic congestion in the wholesale food market. Boston, like the rest of New England, has failed to gain as North Carolina has gained. Winton-Salem, Durham and other small cities have taken textile...
Table of Contents: Business passes in review; Pyralin model of the Shenandoah is used for scientific tests; Quarrying a canal in the heart of a city; Learn how to shoot at Camp perry; Opening a new railroad in Kentucky; There is no all-purpose...
Table of Contents: Sketching the background; Sweep of the years; Resume of black powder history; Old black powder days; High spots of DuPont high explosives history; Forty-five years ago; Importance of chemistry in DuPont industries; DuPont...
On Back: "Christine J. Lunt, PSFS Senior Vice President - Communications and Marketing Division, and Charles Smart, Ph. D., Paleontologist and Collection Coordinator for the Academy of Natural Sciences, discuss the origins of a section of a Wooly...
Bombers for the British are rolling off the production lines of the Lockheed Aircraft factory, Burbank in steadily increasing numbers, as is evidenced by this line up of famous Lockheed Hudsons, on which mechanics are making final adjustments for...
Visitors marvel at the mirror-like qualities of deep blue Crater Lake, Oregon. Rangers are on hand to tell of such wonders as Crater Lake's 2000 foot depth, its 20 square mile surface the lack of either visible source or exit for its waters and the...
US Coast Guard. Under the category of "Assistance to Life and Property" come the mercy activities for which the Service has become most reknowned. Coast Guard planes, cutters, shore stations, and other units are always ready at an instant's notice...
Mills Novelty Company-Orval Mullis, famed Lincoln impersonator, a visitor at the office of Ralph Mills, vice-president of Mills Novelty Company, on February 12, picks up a magazine with appropriate title. Mullis was born in Kentucky, lives in...
Willow Run MI- Where less than a year ago workmen were still removing bomber machinery, a pair of 2000 foot long Kaiser-Frazer body trim lines now complete 45 bodies an hour each. The gigantic Kaiser-Frazer automobile lat is now equipped with two...
Excerpts from the July 18, 1952 issue of the Chambers Works News. Includes a bird's-eye-view sketch of the plant in 1922. Article titles: Old Artist's Sketch Shows How Works Looked 30 Years Ago; Twelve More Plant Men Get Awards; Their Business Is...
Written caption: Joanna furnace in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Erected 1792 by George Eege (?) , rebuilt and enlarged in 1847. Small building to left is the engine house, stone stack and ruins of cast house at right. The space between engine house...
Saugus Iron Works, Saugus, Massachusetts restoration project. Demonstration of the forge hammer. Three hundred years ago, ironworkers cast iron sows (bars) at the blast furnace. In the forgess finery and chaffery furnaces the sows were heated...
Nylon carpeting, paradoxically the most luxurious yet in terms of wear life and upkeep, the most economical ever made, was shown at a press meeting held recently in New York by the Nye-Wait Company. Almost 100 different samples were displayed were...
Although Mylar polyester film was introduced by DuPont more than 12 years ago, research on this product continues. Here in the Film Department's Research and Development Laboratory at the Circleville, Ohio plant, a research chemist makes a modified...
The industrial chemist today stands in sharp contrast with the lone wolf inventor common even a little more than a generation ago. Although the initiative and creative thought of the individual is still of prime importance, the modern researcher is...
High pressure lab of DuPont's Chemical Department investigates chemical reactions at high pressures, often equivalent to that exerted by a column of water six miles high. Operator shown here checks remote controls at the DuPont Company's...
