"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."