A Navy Curtiss Helldiver is snapped against the background provided by its carrier as it returns from a strike at Jap shipping. Far below other planes are being spted on the flight deck to which the SB2C will soon return.
The majestic wing sweep more than 141 feet, of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, is emphasized in this picture. The slender, tapering wings, set back from the elongated nose of the airplane, are a characteristic of the Boeing-designed and developed...
Resembling a horde of huge insets, these Bell H-13D helicopters are lined up at the Niagara Fall Municipal Airport prior to beginning the long journey to Korea where they are urgently needed by the Army Field Forces. Helicopters of this and other...
Months ahead of schedule, the Vega Aircraft Corporation plant in Burbank CA is now in full mass production of B-17 Flying Fortresses for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Vega was the first to make deliveries of these heavy bombers under a pooled...
The huge tail span of the Constellation-first Lockheed to have three fins. Lockheed is famous for its many twin tailed airplanes. The three tail arrangement not only keep over all height to a minimum for convenience in fitting into hangars the...
The Social Security bill signed by President Reagan in April radically changes Medicare payments. The President is pressing other health care cost proposals.
Headquarters of most of the major oil companies or their branches now operating in the Canadian West, Calgary and its municipal airport provide a base for more than 40 executive type of aircraft. These range up to and include DC-3s. Calgary's...
The Social Security bill signed by President Reagan in April radically changes Medicare payments. The President is pressing other health care cost proposals.
Ford Motor Company factory sponsored cars dominated the super speedways of stock car racing in the mid to late 1960's. The "Golden Boy" of the stock car circuit was Fred Lorenzen, shown here piloting his 1966 Ford Fairlane to another major victory....
Railroad cars loaded with produce for New York City markets cross the Hudson River on barges which come to rest alongside the New York piers. Before being auctioned off or shipped to consignees, the lots may be inspected by U.S. Department of...
Dr. Harvey C. Rentschler and Dr. Robert F. James viewing one of the new "Sterilamp" devices in the research labs of the Westinghouse Lamp Company in Bloomfield, NJ where it was developed. The slender lamp produces special radiation which is...
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...
Ford Motor Company factory sponsored cars dominated the super speedways of stock car racing in the mid to late 1960's. The Golden Boy of the stock car circuit was Fred Lorenzen, shown here piloting his 1966 Ford Fairlane to another major victory....
Railroad cars loaded with produce for New York City markets cross the Hudson River on barges which come to rest alongside the New York piers. Before being auctioned off or shipped to consignees, the lots may be inspected by U.S. Department of...
A gallery of contrasts-striking photos illustrates the wide difference between primitive methods and modern. Women harvesting wheat near Orvieto in Italy one of them using a cycle the other gathering up and binding the sheaves. This method is in...
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...
For the first time, the Army has permitted photographs of its new Patton 48 medium tanks rolling from the Chrysler Delaware Tank Plant assembly line. Military experts say this new spectacular tank will whip any other tank in the world. This million...
County committee of the AAA, representing the War Food Administration, have arranged for around 20 auctions this fall to help the Defense Plant Corporation move to farmers used tools, equipment and supplies that could not be moved successfully...
