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.
Wary rat peeks from tunnel type cage as drop of flood is take from tail. Tests like this at the Haskell Lab led DuPont to drop a new herbicide for use near foods.
note with image: "One of the most dramtic points in the automobile assembly process at the new General Motors plant in Fremont, Calif., is the "body drop" station on the final assembly line. Here, car bodies are lowered -- according to a precise...
Table of Contents: The super sprint ahead; Intermediates, anyone; Scenes from America's industrial childhood; Lift for a leftover; Remington's Humane Stunner hailed; Maintenance memo, try nylon to plastic; Small rivets for a big bomber; Know how to...
Table of Contents: Exit, wearing halo; Fifty years of service to sportsmen; Skeet is in the air; America's well-dressed women; Continuous logging and lumbering in the Pacific Northwest; A stellar attraction in plastic; Beware of the moth; Conquest...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Mining; Plastics industry; Nylon;
Table of Contents: The mining industry and DuPont; Story previews; Miners' right-hand man; Housewives vote for Cel-o-seal bands; yes, partners of progress; Longer life for mine timber; Paintbrush bristles, made in U.S.A.; Sand, water, and...
Clear or colored glass marbles drop from the storage container into the compact electric furnace where they are melted at about 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten glass oozes through 102 pinpricks in the platinum alloy bushing emerging as hair...
Open top furnace with the charging hopper bell open to drop the charge into the furnace. The elevator for the workers bringing up the charging buggies can be partially seen to the right
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...
Carrie Furnaces, Homestead Plant, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company, Pittsburgh District, Pennsylvania. View of cooling tank connected to some of the pig casting machines. Not all pig casters use this practice, most machines are quite long and...
Aluminum alloy rivets in the little cellophane envelope at the left will remain cold and therefore are drivable for an hour or an hour and a half, because of the insulating property of the cellophane, instead of only a half hour, as was the case...
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....
Caption: "Small sizes of coal drop through the large holes in the screens while large lumps pass on to be cracked into sizes which can be most efficiently handled by the equipment in the great buildings where Reading Anthracite is thoroughly...
