Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys take one day a week from their English course for "war activities" in order to learn the basic principles of first aid |
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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. High school boys growing physically fit through exercise |
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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Home economics students contributing to the school's Victory Corps program by preparing and serving food in the student-operated cafeteria |
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Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. A soldier |
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Frank C. Wright, Jr., Washington representative for the anthracite industry, speaking before labor-management committee members at Scranton, July 29th. Michael J. Kosik, seated. |
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Girls calisthenics at a high school |
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Members of joint labor-management committees at Pottsville, July 30th |
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New wartime baseball. Cork-cushioned centers in baseballs--official in major leagues for more than a decade--are war-taboo. Rubber-cushioned centers, "borrowed" from stopped golf ball production, offer temporary relief. Left: cork-type ball; right; new baseball with rubber center |
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Scrapped cannon. Veterans of World War I, these cannons join the scrap heap to be reprocessed and recast into streamlined equipment that will be aimed once more at the enemy |
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Substitute materials containers. New army "blitz" can. A five-gallon metal container for water, oil, or gasoline, constructed with air spaces to prevent sinking |
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Substitute materials containers. Something new in apple containers. To replace nail-bound wooden boxes, a fiber carton has been developed |
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Substitute materials containers. These new types of fiber shell containers with metal rims on the ends are being experimented with for shell, howitzers and hand grenades |
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Substitute materials containers. Wartime tobacco containers. Left to right: one-pound fiber container, two-ounce fiber container, and two-ounce metal can. Fiber is expected to be used for tobacco containers for the duration |
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Substitute materials. Glass utensils. A deep dish glass baking dish of the type shown here makes layers so big that two suffice for a good-sized cake. A glass saucepan for preparing the ingrediants and a glass plate for holding the cake show the utility of glass as a substitute for strategic materials |
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Substitute materials. Glass utensils. Glass mixing bowls are doing double duty today as busy war-working housewives mix, bake, and serve cake in one and the same bowl, with no dishwashing between stages |
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Substitute materials. Glass utensils. New type glass measuring cups have easy-to-read markings. The quart measuring cup shown here makes simple the job of preparing baby's formula or cooking recipes |
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Substitute materials. Glass utensils. With production of metal containers restricted because of military needs, more and more food products are entering American kitchens in glass jars and bottles |
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Substitute materials. Jan., 1942-Jan., 1943. Alarm clocks manufactured with cases of cellulose fibre and small amount of critical metal |
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Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Constructed of wood reinforced with timber connectors, this 166 foot wide clear span mold loft building has been duplicated many times in shipyards on the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. The unobstructed floor of a mold loft is a giant drawing board. The many parts of merchant ships, such as plates, ribs, and bulk-heads are drawn on the floor in full size. From these drawings templates are made and from the templates the actual parts are fabricated |
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Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Timber in process of preparation for timber connectors. The rings provide a larger supporting area than that attained by other methods of joining timber |
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Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Use of wood in the construction of Army chapels is shown here, one of 570 similar structures erected since last fall. All of them were built with wood trusses like these or with glued laminated wood arches, saving many tons of structural steel for more strategic purposes. New methods for timber joints have made it possible to reduce the amount of material needed for trusses and other load-bearing members |
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Substitute materials. Wood culverts for steel. Assembly of an emergency sectional wood pipe, twenty-four inches in diameter. These pipes, used in place of corrugated iron or reinforced concrete pipes, are made of sections cut from short lengths of wood. Locking of adjacent rings with hardwood dowel pins produces a flexible structure. About 100,000 feet of these wooden pipes were installed in 1942 in drainage culverts, storm sewers and conduits under highways and at army camps, naval stations, airfields and ordnance plants |
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These five members of the National Defense Mediation Board were sitting for the first time on the board in October 31, 1941, when hearings began on the captive coal mine situation. They are, left to right: Frederick R. Fales, Frazier D. MacIver, George Googe, Attorney Francis W.H. Adams and William A. Calvin |
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Victory Corps boy learning to use the school's weather vane in weather forecasting, as part of his pre-aeronautics training in meteorology] |
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Flushing High School, Queens, New York. A high school boy climbing a rope during a "commando" course] |
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Making model planes according to Navy specifications to be used in the training of military and civilian personnel] |
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Victory Corps boy doing shop work to relieve the manpower shortage |
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Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. To release housewives for war work, girls in high school Victory Corps throughout America are helping to operate day nurseries. In addition to helping the community, these students at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, receive home economics credit for this work |
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War alarm clocks. 1,700,000 of them will be produced this year to meet demand that was normally 12,000,000. Will be distributed by all pre-war alarm clock manufacturers. War alarms are of the hand-wound type, not nearly as durable as pre-war models. The case, about 6 x 6 x 2 1/2 inches, is of molded pressed wood and paper pulp. Mechanism contains only about 1/10 ounce brass and 6 1/2 ounce of steel, compared to pre-war average use in the low-priced alarm clocks of 6 and 13 ounces respectively. For this reason, and since the programmed supply for the year will barely cover the needs of workers in directly war-essential occupations, War Production Board (WPB) has requested that no one buy a war alarm unless it satisfies real need, not merely want, wish, or whim |
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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. How the mines contribute to the nation's scrap pile was demonstrated by an enthusiastic miner during an anthracite rally, one of four held in Eastern Pennsylvania, September 28th through October 1st |
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War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Smiling with pleasure, a husky coal miner reads the enclosure with his pay check that shows him how he is helping to win the war. He extracts anthracite, or hard coal, from an Eastern Pennsylvania mine |
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