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Miss Bussell and Miss Cumberland try aiming the gun. These big weapons use vast amounts of shells, firing them 40,000 feet into the air; each automatically timed to burst by an intricate fuse. More shells of all types are being used now than ever before. And 3,400 women workers are needed to fill the gaps at Scarboro and the D.I.L. plant at Ajax to keep the shells coming.
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At the General Engineering Co. plant at Scarboro and the Defence Industries Ltd. plant at Ajax, 3,400 women workers are needed to help make shells so that the guns can be kept in action. Margaret Miller, fuse maker at General Engineering, asks for help to fill the gaps in the line - to keep the guns supplied.
Picture, 1944
Typical of thousands of young women who play important roles in the war-time scene is Mary Spellan; accountant in Research's glass-making department.
Picture, 1943
Sixty per cent. of the workers at the factory where signal cartridges and flares are made are women; forty per cent. are men. Here are two of the women assembling parachute flares; some of which weigh up to thirty pounds.
Picture, 1941
Revolutionary! exclaimed a supervisor; at women working on parts of fuselage; as Valida igle and Jean Neil are; rivetting main piping [Incomplete]
Picture, 1942
Taking a cue from other democratic countries; women in the Unied States are flocking into war industries. This attactive blonde is working on rubber coverings for plane fuel tanks.
Picture, 1941
Toronto me; women; boys and girls who pass aptitude tests find themselves building planes. Starting her test is Jean Secor.
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Somewhere in Quebec they're turning out these Chicago pianos Canadian warships and from the Canadian army that has waited ne More and more; Quebec women are on the job in this gun plant. instantly detect when their machine begin [Incomplete]
Picture, 1942
Star girl enlists; Isobel McRae; employed in The Star business office for six years; has enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval service and has been posted to Galt.
Picture, 1943
Announcement of Hon. J. L. Usley; minister of finance; that a wife who earns $600 a year will be treated as a single tax-payer; and her husband as a married one; comes as welcome news to married women at Massey Harris plant. An official of the personnel department stated that war workers some of the women in the 25-pound shell department earn as high as $40 a week; and that they become highly skilled workers who must be kept if production is going to keep its pace.
Picture, 1942
The brief simple ceremony was attended by hundreds of workmen; who quit their jobs for a few moments to witness the dedication of the first-fruits of their labor. Here munitions inspectors at the plant line up behind women spectators. The tank; Mr. Howe said; is a Canadian product; into which radical changes in design have been introudced. Hundreds of other mbile fortresses will soon follow this first one.
Picture, 1941
Lining up in Berlin; men; women and children wait before a potato pile in a street to receive their rations of potatoes. Two women supervise the distribution as they fill empty bags with shovels. Food is scarce in the German capital and there are few buildings suitable for districbuting centres. Allied vehicles carry food to the city
Picture, 1945
Women Are Warriors might well be the title of this picture story; illustrating the part women play in the work of a small Ontario munitions town. Above is shown part of the women's army as they pass the men's dormitories on the way to their jobs.The village in which they live is self-contained; and boasts a hospital; recreation hall; restaurant; beauty parlor and playing field. One feature is that the plant offers postwar rehabilitation courses.
Picture, 1942
Canadian Women help make war equipment. A young lady curls metal sheets for parachute flare containers.
Picture, 1941
Down in Quebec women are playing a big role in a gun plant and here Isobel MacKenzie inspects six-pounder gun parts.
Picture, 1942
Women learn to fill the shells for their soldiers; Wives; mothers and grandmothers of active service men are wartime schoolgirls at classes in shell-filling in Danforth technical school. Here are (LEFT to RIGHT); Mrs. Hedley Dollimore; mother of two whose husband is in the army at Camp Borden; Mrs. Christine Ramsey; an instructress at the classes; and Mrs. Harold Nash; who has a brother in the army and knits for the Red Cross in spare time.
Picture, 1943
A sight for the sun-blistered eyes of the Canadian fighting men on the Italian front is Pte. Jean Gallani of the Canadian Women's Army Corps; Halifax. A trouper with the Canadian Army Show; she is shown here resting at a Canadian casualty clearing station in Italy.
Picture, 1944
As never before; women are running the entire scale of jobs in Canadian war industry. Grinding; welding; assembling; drilling punching; pressing; packing; shaping on machines big and small are jobs for women today. This girl is an expert on a grinding wheel. She is working on an airplane part.
Picture, 1941
Two Young Women are here inspecting the equipment in a Ram tank before the gun shield is rivetted in place and the cannan installed. Designed by Maj. Gen. F. F. Worthington; O.C. 4th Canadian division; Rams are being supplied to two Canadian divisions.
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Women War Criminals on trial with other Nazis at Lueneberg; Germany; sit in the prisoners dock; wearing identification numbers; and listen to the procedings. Identifiable are; (8) Herta Ehlert; a warden at Belsen; (9) Irma Grese; assistant to Josef Kramer; the Beast of Belsen; (10) IIse Lithe; warden of Belsen
Picture, 1945
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