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...
Text from back of image: "A two-day glider meet, held at Pacific Beach near San Diego recently brought thousands of interested spectators. W. H. Bowlus, San Diego's only entry captured the distance and endurance record for the 'soarer' and came in...
Machines are whirring, conveyor systems and assembly lines are moving the Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Company at Dearborn, MI and each shift brings thousands of workmen in the plant. Pictured are workmen entering and leaving the plant on a bridge...
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...
Striking aerial view of Miami, metropolis of the American Riviera. Marvelous development of resort places in southern Florida menaces the French-already thousands of Americans who formerly went to the Mediterranean winter resorts to spend their...
The genesis of these Louisiana wooden ships is the huge saw mill where thousands of heavy timbers are cut by 'patterns to fin into the hull design, exactly as a dressmaker would cut material for a frock from paper patterns. Here's the Great...
In the pouring of open hearth furnaces, molten steel flows from a huge ladle in ingot molds. Later, the ingots are formed into sheets and bars for manufacture into thousands of industrial products. (Photographed at the Rouge Plant of Ford Motor...
Twenty-one year old Beatrice Vienna and over 450 of her follow employees now ride bicycles to work at Vega Aircraft Corporation to save essential rubber for the war effort. Married to aircraft worker, Art Vienna, Beatrice is one of the many women...
Scene from a coal mine thousands of feet under a mountain in West Virginia, where W.E. Austin, movie cameraman for the Norfolk and western Railway, is shown taking what are believed to be the first color movies inside a mine. The shots were taken...
The Boeing 707 prototype, Americas first jet transport, lifted from the Renton municipal airport runway adjacent to The Boeing Company plant where it was built as thousands of spectators watched, some from the roofs of nearby buildings. Ushering in...
Close up of south face of Brookhaven Reactor-Through these holes in the south face of the Brookhaven reactor are introduced tons of pure uranium metal. Once in the graphite moderator of the reactor proper, uranium atoms fission, or spilt, in a...
Union Oil Company Float Cinderella, awarded the Grand Prize in the Tournament of Roses Parade, annual Southern California New Year fiesta which this year drew to Pasadena a crowd estimated at 1.5 million. The float portrayed Cinderella fleeing from...
The Arlington Works of the DuPont Viscoloid Company at Arlington, New Jersey. Here great quantities of Pyralin sheeting, rods and tubes and thousands of sets of toilet ware are produced.
Industrial tools are what make America so enormously productive. DuPont uses many thousands of tools, ranging in size form the common needle to this big ethylene refining unit at its Sabine River Works near Orange, Texas. Operated by the company's...
Standing on a pile of many thousands of feet of Delrin acetal resin pipe, an employee of the DuPont Company's pipe plant at Tulsa, Oklahoma easily handles one hundred feet of the two inch diameter plastic pipe which will ultimately find its way...
This newly completed 30 million pound plant at Beaumont, Texas was built by DuPont solely for the manufacture of a sulfur vulcanizable ethylene propylene rubber. Its capacity can be extended when demand justifies it. Because of the need for close...
This diagram shows a typical surface cross section as it might appear, magnified many thousands of times, under an electron microscope. The surface might be that of a fiber, or of a painted wall, or even wall paper. In Line No. 1, rough soil...
DuPont Products and Chemical Relationships between Products
The thousands of labels used to identify DuPont products show the diversity of the goods the company makes. For the first century Du Pont was primarily a maker of explosives. The past 50 years have seen the company broaden its base to become the...
Research on Motor Fuels, Lubricants and Petroleum Additives
In an effort to find out more about motor fuels, lubricant and engine performance, a test car is driven for miles on an instrumented treadmill under simulated road conditions at DuPont's Petroleum Laboratory. The treadmill can be tilted to any...
Midway during construction, huge structures for manufacturing plutonium had begun to rise. Thousands of DuPont men and women had a hand in the company's largest single war undertaking. The construction force along reached a peak of 45,000 in June...
