[no source, handwritten: April 1, 1941]
Work at TNT Plant
Work is
being pushed on construction of the huge TNT plant at Weldon Springs. The
Francis Howell High School which is now used as headquarters for the project.
From the
quarry, the rock is taken to the crushing plant. Crushed, the rock is poured on
the roadways and smoothed out.
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[no source, June 14, 1941]
Fort Wood Fence to
Cost $71,200
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON,
June 13.—Construction of a 10-foot nonclimbable fence, floodlighted for
additional discouragement to prowlers around ammunition and other “critical”
storage areas at 95 army posts is planned by the War Department at a cost of
$2,882,400.
Among the
tentative allocations in the program were: Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Arkansas,
$96,950; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, $71,200; Kansas City Quartermaster Depot,
Mo., $9550.
The fencing
will be of chain-link construction to a height of 7 feet, with three strands of
barbed wire at the top to bring the height to 10 feet. Floodlights will be
erected in the ratio of 49 lights in every mile of fence.
