"Tired of the noise and dust of the near-by small arms ammunition plant, the owner of this newly completed bungalow at 4711 Goodfellow Boulevard has moved out and leased the home for a restaurant serving home-cooked meals "family style" to hungry workmen. The "bungalow restaurant" is the latest in novel types of eating places which have sprung up around the ammunition plant to feed the 15,000
"Tired of the noise and dust of the near-by small arms ammunition plant, the owner of this newly completed bungalow at 4711 Goodfellow Boulevard has moved out and leased the home for a restaurant serving home-cooked meals "family style" to hungry workmen. The "bungalow restaurant" is the latest in novel types of eating places which have sprung up around the ammunition plant to feed the 15,000
"Work on the new $12,000,000 small arms ammunition plant at Bircher and Goodfellow boulevards is progressing speedily. At present workmen are engaged in erecting a number of frame buildings, including tool sheds, dispensary, an office building and other service buildings before actual construction of the plant is started. The framework of the proposed office building for the contracting companies
"This is not an army fort or pillbox, but one of the storage magazines erected on the plant site for smokeless powder used in the manufacture of cartridges. The main powder storage area dump will be located on a 3000-acre tract near Valley Park. These magazines on the site are constructed of concrete 3 feet thick."
"Equipment used for small arms manufacture and now classified as scrap has been put on display at the former St. Louis Ordnance Plant, 4300 Goodfellow Blvd., preparatory to sale to the highest bidder Dec. 3. Capt. F.P. Calabrese (left), salvage officer for the St. Louis Ordnance District, and Col. Clyde H. Morgan, district chief, survey a portion of the material."
"Rows of idle automatic weighing and gauging machines for .30-caliber cartridges at the St. Louis Ordnance Plant in Unit 104, where not a wheel is turning for lack of workers."
"Colonel Clyde H. Morgan, chief of the St. Louis Ordinance District, and Capt. F. P. Calabrese, salvage officer for the district, examining part of the four and one-half million pounds of scrapped machinery located at the former St. Louis Small Arms Plant, bids for which are now being received by the Ordnance Department."
"The plant area is too large to permit the 9000 workmen to leave for lunch, so trucks bring boxed lunches to the men in the field. That they do a brick business is indicated by this line waiting for food."
"The Proof House is the "shooting gallery" of Uncle Sam's St. Louis Ordnance Plant, one of the World's largest producers of machine-gun and rifle ammunition. For twenty-four hours a day dunners fire anti-tank gun, browning automatic rifles, garands and every other military weapon to test the .30 and .50 caliber ammunition produced by the Big Plant. The St. Louis Ordnance Plant is operated by the United States Cartridge Company."
"More than 450 of the guards at the small arms ammunition plant on Goodfellow and Bircher Boulevards, are shown being sworn in yesterday as auxiliary army police by Col. Roy L. Bowlin. The men will be drilled and instructed as military units and be under the command of army officers but will retain most civilian rights. A second group was sworn in at the Ordnance Plant later in the day. All guards at government-owned or government-operated plants are being taken over in the same manner."
"Women are playing a more important role in the aircraft industry, too. Miss Luci Koorman (left) and Miss Florence Weishaar are attaching friction strings to sections of engine cowlings for an advanced combat training plane (left) and one of the 36-passenger transports (right) at Curtiss-Wright."
bullet, the case, the powder and the primer, but their mass manufacture in astronomical quantities requires the same highly exacting standard employed in the making of a fine watch. This photo shows a unique inspection machine at the Local Ordnance Plant--one of more than 20 such plants throughout the United States. Just as a dentist puts a mirror in a patient's mouth to examine it, so does this case
"Mechanical conveyors and chutes carry partly finished cartridge cases to another in the more than 125 separate operations required to produce the finished product."
"United States Senators Dennis Chavez of New Mexico (left) and Hugh A. Butler of Nebraska watched a St. Louis girl turning out finished .30-caliber machine-gun bullets at the small arms ammunition plant in northwest St. Louis yesterday. This is the first photo taken of actual production at the $100,000,000 plant. It was snapped during an inspection trip by 16 United States Senators and four
"Here are five thousands of women workers at the small arms ammunition plant here. Weighing and gauging are the final steps taken before the cartridges are packed for shipment to Uncle Sam's armed forces. Operations here, too, are chiefly mechanical."
"Two union laborers were fired for taking 35 minutes to carry 100 pounds. A strike was called yesterday afternoon, throwing about 7500 men out of work."
"The business end of cartridges is being inspected by this worker, one of many both visual and mechanical inspections to which each finished product is subjected."