"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.
"A worker inspects a finished glider skeleton of metal tubing for flaws in manufacture." Part of special feature release showing production of military materials in civilian factories during wartime.
"Carpenters at work on one of the large wings which go on the invasion glider." Part of special feature release showing production of military materials in civilian factories during wartime.
"August A. Busch Jr. (left) extends greetings to members of Quarter-Century club of brewery for long service at Hotel Jefferson dinner Sept. 23, 1950. Others from left are: August S. Preusch, chief of staff of guides at brewery; Oscar F. Miller, and Henry Boekelmann. The three men are 50-year employees."
"Emission of fly ash is reduced by this towering piece of equipment attached to the stack of the largest boiler of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., at Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. Installed at a cost of $145,000 and using 45,000 volts of electricity, the equipment will reduce fly-ash emission to less than .075 grain to the cubic foot of stack gas, or one-tenth the amount formerly emitted."
A ton and a half of powdered ice was blown onto the ground and shrubbery in front of the brewery's hospitality house in order to set the scene for a horse-drawn tally-ho carrying two couples and a coachman costumed in authentic colonial dress.