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1. Giant crankshaft for U.S. Navy vessel. How would you like to have a crankshaft this size in your automobile? It is going into one of General Motors' diesel engines for Uncle Sam's Navy. Extreme accuracy is a requisite of this defense item being produced at the General Motors Cleveland diesel engine division, and Navy inspector H.W. Watson checks up on the crankshaft's hardness. With the intensification of the national defense program, this plant has converted almost all its entire production to propulsion machinery for Uncle Sam's fleet. General Motors orders for diesel engines from the Navy and other defense units total $89,400,000. With a recent addition nearing completion, the General Motors Cleveland plant now has more than 200,000 square feet of floor space. In addition to diesels being produced in Cleveland for marine use, General Motors is producing large numbers of diesel engines at the Detroit diesel engine division for use in tanks, trucks, and tractors 1941?

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 Instance 19649508
2. General Motors Delivering Machine Guns for Defense. Here, at the General Motors AC Spark Plug Division, Flint, Michigan, is shown the final assembly operation on .50 caliber machine guns being produced on Army defense orders. General Motors machine gun assignments total $83,697, 839 for guns and $26,583,306 for facilities. Quantity delivery of these machines guns is included in General Motors defense deliveries to date totaling $209,500,000. The aggregate of defense orders assigned to General Motors or under negotiation, now amounts to about $1,200,000,000 [between 1940 and 1946]

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 Instance 19649594
3. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for a nation of jitterbugs has given way to the preparation of trainer-plane motors for a nation dedicated to victory, in this Chicago factory now converted to war production. Bernice Strutz (left) and Clara Bernas are pictured at their pre-war work of installing regulating screws in a piano keyboard. Today they assemble pneumatic motors for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company 1942 July

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 Instance 19638904
4. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Norwegian-born Edward Groe has been employed by a Chicago piano factory since 1909, regulating keys of electric organs. With the plant's conversion to the production of trainer-plane motors, this master mechanic has discarded instruments of peace, such as this electric organ, for weapons of war. He now regulates pneumatic motors of trainer planes which are used for instruction of America's flying forces. Gulbransen Company 1942 July

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 Instance 19638914
5. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Preparing sharps and flats for a nation of jitterbugs has given way to the preparation of trainer-plane motors for a nation dedicated to victory, in this Chicago factory now converted to war production. Bernice Strutz (left) and Clara Bernas are pictured at their pre-war work of installing regulating screws in a piano keyboard. Today they assemble pneumatic motors for Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Gulbransen Company 1942 July

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 Instance 19638905
6. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Using the same drill press which once assembled piano parts, this employee of a Chicago firm now installs gears in the pneumatic motors of trainer planes. The factory has stopped piano production for the duration and now produces trainer-plane motors for America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company 1942 July

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 Instance 19638913
7. Many inspections necessary in defense production. In the General Motors Cleveland diesel engine division, men are at work on the huge task of constructing diesel engines to power U.S. Navy vessels. With the intensification of the national defense program, this plant has converted almost its entire production to propulsion machinery for Uncle Sam's fleet. General Motors orders for diesel engines from the Navy and other defense units total $89,400,000. Every part of every diesel engine is subjected to continuous and rigid inspection. Above, left to right: T.G. Motherall and E.E. Weightman, Navy inspectors; J.J. Zeruck, layout man; and H.W. Watson, Navy inspector, lay out a crankcase. In addition to diesels being produced in Cleveland for marine use, General Motors is producing large numbers of diesel engines at the Detroit diesel engine division for use in tanks, trucks, and tractors 1941?

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 Instance 19649507
8. 100 percent defense work in this General Motors plant. A complete changeover from automobile equipment to defense production is the record of the General Motors Rochester Products Division in Rochester, New York. By January, this plant will have attained 100 percent defense production, taking just a year to accomplish the entire conversion, without any general stoppage of work or major layoffs. The conveyor line above, formerly used to produce automobile horns, has been converted to the making of control units for aircraft and tanks. Assembly lines, which only a few months ago were turning out thousands of generators, starters, speedometors, ignition units, shock absorbers and hydraulic brake cylinders for automobiles, now are delivering huge quantities of generators, starting motors, control units, dynamotors, and alternators of varying sizes and capacities for Army and Navy training, combat, and bombing aircraft and for tanks. The plant is purchasing parts and materials from over 200 firms in 100 cities 1941 or 1942

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 Instance 19649749
9. Here, in the General Motors Allison Division plant at Indianapolis, Allison liquid-cooled aviation engines are being packed for daily shipment to the U.S. Army. General Motors already has delivered for defense $60,900,000 in aircraft engines, aircraft parts, and equipment. This included in the total of $209,600,000,000 of defense materials of all types delivered by General Motors to date. The aggregate of defense orders assigned to General Motors, or under negotiation, now amounts to about $1,200,000,000. The Allison engine is being produced for use in Curtiss P-40 (Tomahawk), Bell Airacobra, Lockheed Interceptor, and the North American Apache and Mustang fighting planes [between 1940 and 1946]

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 Instance 19649689
10. General Motors diesel engines being produced for defense. Above, in the General Motors diesel engine division plant where defense contracts are being filled for the United States, Canada, and England, two-cycle diesel engines for use in tanks, tractors, and trucks are being deleivered in quantity daily. At the Cleveland diesel engine division, propulsion machinery for Navy vessels is being produced. Engaged in the production of many types of defense materials, General Motors already has delivered $209,500,000 in defensed orders. The aggregate of defense orders assigned to General Motors, or under negotiation, now amounts to about $1,200,000,000 1941?

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 Instance 19649509
11. In the General Motors Allison Division plant at Indianapolis, Allison liquid-cooled aviation engines are being turned out in steady flow for to the U.S. Army. Above is shown a cylinder machining operation. The Allison engine is being produced for use in Curtiss P-40 (Tomahawk), Bell Airacobras, Lockheed Interceptor, and the North American Apache and Mustang fighting planes. General Motors already has delivered for defense $60,900,000 in aircraft engines, aircraft parts, and equipment. This is included in the total of $209,500,000 of defense items of all types delivered by General Motors to date. The aggregate of defense orders assigned to General Motors, or under negotiation, now amounts to about $1,200,000,000 [between 1940 and 1946]

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 Instance 19649690
12. General Motors delivers cartridge cases for defense. Here at the General Motors guide lamp division, Anderson, Indiana, 37 mm. and 105 mm. cartridge cases are being manufactured and delivered on defense orders. In the foreground the cases are emerging from an annealing furnace process. Government contracts for shells, cartridge cases and fuzes totals $41,600,000. Large quantities of cartraidge cases are included in General Motors defense items delivered to date totaling $209,500,000. The aggregate of defense orders assigned to General Motors, or under negotiation, now amounts to about $1,200,000,000 ca. 1941.

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 Instance 19649510
13. Turning out aluminium castings for defense aircraft. Here, in the new General Motors Delco-Remy aluminum foundry at Henderson, Indiana, rough castings are being produced in quantity for delivery to the Allison Division plant at Indianapolis. General Motors already has delivered for defense $60,900,000 in aircraft engines, aircraft parts, and equipment. This in included in the total of $209,500,000 of defense items of all types delivered by General Motors to date. The aggregate of defense orders assigned to General Motors, or under negotiation, now amounts to about $1,200,000,000. The Allison engine is being produced for use in Curtiss P-40 (Tomahawk), Bell Airacobra, Lockheed Interceptor, and the North American Apache and Mustang fighting planes 1941?

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 Instance 19649688
14. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Operating an electric screwdriver, Bernice Strutz assembles parts for the pneumatic motors of Uncle Sam's trainer planes. Employed by a Chicago piano factory which is now converted to airplane motor production, Miss Strutz formerly operated a boring machine to assemble piano keyboards 1942 July

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 Instance 19638911
15. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company 1942 July

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 Instance 19638910
16. Lease lend loadings. Crates of airplane motors ready to be loaded aboard ship. Destination: Russia. Purchased on a lend-lease basis, these motors are among the equipment sent to America's Allies [between 1940 and 1946]

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 Instance 19635823
17. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. A pretty girl surrounded by melody! Employed by a Chicago piano factory which has recently been converted to war production, Bernice Strutz uses a drill press to set capstan screws in keyboards. Today, however, she's assembling trainer-plane motors to be used by America's armed forces. Gulbransen Company 1942 July

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 Instance 19638909
18. Rosener, Ann Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company 1942 July

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 Instance 19638915
19. Harris & Ewing Do not abolish present system, GMC head tells monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. William S. Knudsen, President of the General Motors Corp., today told the Monopoly Committee that to abolish the patent system would be 'bad for industry generally.' He added, 'it wouldn't mean much to General Motors but hurt the inventors' [19]38 December 6

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 Instance 20254408
20. Giant crankshaft for U.S. Navy vessel. How would you like to have a crankshaft this size in your automobile? It is going into one of General Motors' diesel engines for Uncle Sam's Navy. Extreme accuracy is a requisite of this defense item being produced at the General Motors Cleveland diesel engine division, and Navy inspector H.W. Watson checks up on the crankshaft's hardness. With the intensification of the national defense program, this plant has converted almost all its entire production to propulsion machinery for Uncle Sam's fleet. General Motors orders for diesel engines from the Navy and other defense units total $89,400,000. With a recent addition nearing completion, the General Motors Cleveland plant now has more than 200,000 square feet of floor space. In addition to diesels being produced in Cleveland for marine use, General Motors is producing large numbers of diesel engines at the Detroit diesel engine division for use in tanks, trucks, and tractors

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