100 4 horse teams are at work on a section of the All American Canal being constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in the Imperial Valley CA. This force account work has provided farmers of Imperial Valley with major work relief jobs. These teams...
25 of these giant new type steam locomotive for freight service are being built by the PRR to draw wartime trains of 125 loaded cars at speeds in excess of 50 mph. The new engine develops more power in its working range than any steam locomotive...
50 mail sacks, containing more than 200,000 checks representing April 1922 dividend payments on American Telephone and Telegraph Company stock, leaving the company's building at 195 Broadway for the post office.
"A momentary burst of lights unequalled in the annals of photography turns night into day for this history making picture marking the centennial of the world famous Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad, an engineering marvel to this day and...
"More homes along distinct California lines for the people of the East and especially designed for their climate. Introducing our latest designs in the Swiss chalet and typical bungalow as developed in the Southland."
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
A corner of the magazine rack in the Lavoisier Library at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station shows just a portion of the hundreds of current technical journals available for reference. In addition, this library has more than 55,000...
A Dycril photopolymer printing plate gets a final check after being processed in less than 20 minutes. The plate is now ready for the press. DuPont introduced Dycril in 1957 and has invested more than $10 million over a twelve year period in the...
A flyer block of nylon, used in textile machinery, travels as fast as 15,000 revolutions per minute without lubrication. Attached to a spindle in the spinning operation, the flyer clock holds wires which provide necessary tension to the yarn. The...
A momentary burst of lights unequalled in the annals of photography turns night into day for this history making picture marking the centennial of the world famous Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad, an engineering marvel to this day and...
A new understanding of how metals wear under friction and how to reduce this problem, may come from fundamental research being carried out at DuPont's Experimental Station, one of the largest centers of research in the world. It spreads over 95...
A recent development in the textile field that is growing in importance is Cordura rayon. This rayon yarn was made expressly for the manufacturing of cords for bus, truck and passenger car tires. Because of its high strength and its ability to...
A recent development in the textile field that is growing in importance is Cordura rayon. This rayon yarn was made expressly for the manufacturing of cords for bus, truck and passenger car tires. Because of its high strength and its ability to...
A seashore resort on the Atlantic Ocean, includes a two and one half mile stretch of beach, a 13, 000 foot long boardwalk and a nationally famous amusement park. Roller coasters, tunnel rides, fun houses, shooting galleries and hot dog stands are...
A typical group of Reading anthracite miners waiting to go on duty at the Alaska Colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company near Mount Caramel PA. Most of them are of the second and third generation of miners in PAs anthracite...
Aerial view of Kaiser Steel mill and new industrial area surrounding area at Fontana, CA. Image accompanied a press release by The Perrett Company, Los Angeles, CA.
Southern California's fastest growing industrial area is developing around the...
Correspondence regarding the sales of the recent shipments of mining powder on the "Ocean Traveller"and "Gertrude." The letter also repeats the request not to send any more shipments of powder at the present time.
