"Work Now Going on in That Building Within a Building"

St. Louis Globe-Democrat

1941-08-21

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Equipment. Weapons. Plants
United States Cartridge Company
United States Army and World War II

Saint Louis (Mo.)

1940-1949

"Another novel device to speed production is revealed in this photograph of the core plant, which shows a complete production unit installed within a temporary wooden structure while men work on the permanent building. Cores machined at a training school for employes are treated in the temporary foundry, making possible production of several hundred thousand cores for government cartridge plants in other parts of the country."

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