Sentence examples for munitions work from inspiring English sources

Modern munitions work in many different ways.

Munitions work was popular with women, but it was dangerous.

Loftus was an ordnance mechanic, her portrait commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to encourage other women into munitions work.

His steelworker father died when he was young and his mother went on from first world war munitions work to jobs in children's homes.

IN more peaceful times, the 1,700 scientists and engineers at Picatinny Arsenal, one of the Army's leading research and development centers for weapons and munitions, work in quiet obscurity.

During both world wars millions of women used the expansion of munitions work as a means of escaping domestic service, which paid poor wages and often demanded a seven-day week.

Visit to a number of small plants formerly manufacturing textiles, fountain pens, etc., and now converted into very efficient munitions works.

H. G. Wells, says: "No European Government will ever get the same proportions of its people into the ranks and into its munitions works as the government of 1914-1918".

Already in March 1942 an exceptionally destructive bombing raid, using the Germans' own incendiary method, had been made on Lübeck; and intensive attacks were also made on Essen (site of the Krupp munitions works) and other Ruhr towns.

Even as he relishes the news that his new weapons are proving more efficient at blowing up innocent people around the world, he keeps hundreds of people from poverty, employed and housed in the community surrounding his munitions works.

"Women had come from all over Glasgow, men had come out of the shipyards and the munitions works, and they were gathered all the way back to the City Chambers in George Square, filling the streets.