Word: frankford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glass Polishers. Two years ago Stargazers Porter & Ingalls marched into the Frankford Arsenal with an opportune proposal. The Army desperately needed workmen to make roof prisms for field and anti-aircraft guns and other military instruments. Porter & Ingalls said that amateur telescope-makers, who had years of experience in just such exact work, were eager to take a crack...
...nearby Frankford Hospital, the dead were taken to the basement, the injured upstairs. Soon Frankford Hospital had to report that it could handle no more patients. The ambulances moved on to other hospitals, to Philadelphia's Navy Yard...
...About 12,000 women are working at shell loading in the Middle West. Another 12,000 are making small-arms ammunition. Over 5,000 make gunpowder bags. Some 7,000 have jobs in Government arsenals. At Frankford, half the workers on small-arms ammunition are women...
...overtime wages because they haven't enough workers to go around 40 hours a week. (Latest industries to start operating over 40 hours a week: electrical manufacturing, lumber & millwork, paper & pulp.) Last week too the U. S. Civil Service Commission was scouting for 600 skilled workers for the Frankford (Philadelphia) arsenal. In Ohio, 4,500 production workers will be needed for a new shell-loading plant near Cleveland; at Cincinnati, Wright Aeronautical's new engine plant will shortly be looking for anywhere from 6,000 to 12,000 skilled machinists, other specialty metal tradesmen. This week Federal Security...
...preparatory hum spread through the U. S. last week. Army arsenals at Rock Island, 111., Augusta, Ga., Benicia, Calif., Frankford, Pa., Dover, N. J., Metuchen, N. J.; San Antonio, Tex., Springfield, Mass., Watertown, Mass., Watervliet, N. Y., Edgewood, Md., were put on a six-day week. Two shipbuilders (Bath Iron Works Corp., Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.) bid-o build destroyers in 18 months instead A 24. The Du Fonts ar ranged to build and operate a big powder plant financed by the French and British (see p. 79). Chrysler Corp. was ready to produce bomb fuses, shell forgings...