Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1919 — Infants’ Food to Shells. [ARTICLE]

Infants’ Food to Shells.

When Mr. Lloyd George In England undertook to organize the ministry of munitions a glazier began to stamp out cartridge!,clips, says the World’s Work; a manufacturer of music rolls used his equipment to make gauges; a concern engaged before the war in prepartag infants’ food began delivering plugs for shells; an advertising agency manufactured shell adapters; watchmakers began adjusting fuses; a manufacturer of baking machinery became a contractor for six-inch high explosive shells; a jewelry house devoted itself exclusively to periscopes'; a phonograph concern sent millions of delicate .shell parts to the assembling stations; a firm vvhich made nothing but sheepshearing—machinery started turning out shell cases; a cream separator factory manufactured shell primers. Among other producers of finished shells were candlemakers, flour mills, tobacco manufacturers, siphon makers and the manufacturers of sporting goods.