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Beating plowshares into swords is being done so rapidly in the U

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Beating plowshares into swords is being done so rapidly in the U

Date5/30/1941

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Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Beating plowshares into swords is being done so rapidly in the U.S. that a rising flood of armament production is flowing outof factories never before engaged in anything connected with war. Chandler and Price; as a subcontractor for Warner and Swasey; world's largest maker of turret lathes; help to turn out machine tools to be shipped to England. Here; red hot liquid is tapped from the bottom of the melting furnace on the third floor.

Subject

Weapons industry

World War, 1939-1945

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Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019371F

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