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Show t . Making Martial Millinery j For totlay's lesson we take you to the Detroit plant of the McCord Radiator comfany uhere steel helmets for our bigeer, better army are being turned out at the rate of 12.000 a day. The new model is pot-shaped. It comes down over the forehead and covers the back' of the neck, giving added protection to the entire head and sides of the face. Note how the martial millinery rolls of the assembly line. "if rMWH mini SEWING . . . What sewing can there be on a steel helmet? The chin-strap. Strap-hooks have already been welded to the steel shell, and the women shown in this picture are sewing on the straps. Mini .lln t v i ii i i.i ii ip ,--'-,-"--w ;,. l , : EDGING . . . The brim of a steel helmet is practically nonexistent, non-existent, but there's a tiny turned-up turned-up edge, and you sec that edge put on here. Machine that does the job is called a spank press. WEIGHING . . . Here's something some-thing different in government inspectors in-spectors pretty Marjorie Thompson, who checks finished helmets for weight. Nothing goes over 2 pounds, 7 ounces. v t ' iir - III ; '' . " ,;' ' IV r J t virv U-i r uVC rv' V '-; - ' ) ' . ' "" , ;: ' t' iff 1 : J '"l QUADRUPLE CHECK . . . Finished helmets pass on a conveyor belt before the critical eyes of no less than four government inspectors. inspec-tors. Flaws don't get by. 11 AT RACK ...In this store room at the McCord plant are some of the thousands of helmets that await shipment to army centers. ON THE MARCH . . . And here arc some of the new helmets in use. i |