"Picketing by the CIO Beer Bottlers Union Local 187 was extended yesterday to the entire plant of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., forcing the complete shutdown of production. Pickets shown here are in front of the corn products plant and lager beer cellars near Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. The Anheuser-Busch shutdown was followed by a production stoppage at the Hyde Park Brewwery, where picket lines were set up by the Warehouse and Distribution Workers Local 688 of the AFL Teamsters Union, which threatened to extend the picketing to other breweries."
Original caption: "Seven workmen fell yesterday from the second floor of a building being razed at the Anhueser-Busch Brewery when a beam collapsed under them. All were injured, four seriously. The men plunged through the hole in the background. All seven are Negroes."
Original caption: "Massacre made military and advertizing history - Custer's last fight, the Sioux massacre of the 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn, took place June 25, 1876. The same year, Adolphus Busch introduced Budweiser, the brew that would go on the become the largest selling beer in the world. By coincidence and uncanny marketing instinct, Busch acquired the right to this now-classic painting of the slaughter. In 1895, Busch commissioned F. Otto Beckler, a Milwaukee artist, to copy the work for lithographic reproduction. Anheuser-Busch made one million prints of the painting. Most of them were displayed in American saloons, and were credited as an early breakthrough in mass marketing and production merchandising - one of many that paralleled the rise of Budweiser, now celebrating its 100th anniversary."
"Ken Murray, host of TV's original "Ken Murray Variety Hour" on the CBS network hoists a giant bottle of Budweiser, which sponsored the program in 1951. Budweiser was the first beer brand to sponsor a network television program."
"Cold Brewery - Temperatures near zero yesterday created enough steam to make the Anheuser-Busch brewery at Seventh and Lynch streets look as if it was a raging inferno. It was, however, an exception to that old adage about smoke and fire. There was plenty of the former, but none of the latter."
"This is part of the $150,000,000 in brewery equipment idled by the work stoppage at Anheuser-Busch, Inc. This picture shows the deserted equipment on the sixth floor of the bottling plant."
"Picket lines were set up at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery yesterday by the AFL International Association of Machinists, District 9, after 220 machinists walked out in a dispute over a new contract. The company charged the machinists demanded a contract clause that would result in a jurisdictional dispute. The union charged the management with refusal to negotiate." - Looking north on Broadway from Arsenal.
"Aircraft carpenter Henry Schroeder trims the edges of a junction rib for a glider wing." Part of special feature release showing production of military materials in civilian factories during wartime.