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Title: Employees of Arms Plant
Date: 1941-04-25
Description: All the workers of the Small Arms Plant sit on the construction site and pose for a photo.

Title: Proof House
Date: 1943-05
Description: "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."

Title: Guards Sworn into Office
Date: 1967-04-30
Description: "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."

Title: "In the Aircraft Industry, Too"
Date: 1941-08-08
Description: "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."

Title: Small Arms Plant View
Date: 1959-08-19
Description: Lateral view of the Small Arms Plant in St. Louis.

Title: "Bullets are Born"
Date: 1943-03-23
Description: 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

Title: 125 Operations to Create Ammunition
Date: 1942-06-30
Description: "Mechanical conveyors and chutes carry partly finished cartridge cases to another in the more than 125 separate operations required to produce the finished product."

Title: Men Admire the Female Strive
Date: 1941-12-04
Description: "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

Title: Women Working in Arms Plant
Date: 1942-07-31
Description: "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."

Title: Strike Delays Arms Plant Construction
Date: 1942-07-27
Description: "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."

Title: Inspections Performed for Cartridges
Date: 1942-06-30
Description: "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."

Title: "Small Arms Ammunition Plant Grows Rapidly"
Date: 1941-08-21
Description: Three male employees work hard in constructing the structure for the Small Arms Plant.

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