Worker spray painting aircraft propellers, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation

View of worker spray painting propellers for bombers at the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation in Detroit. Label on back: "Aircraft workers are more weight conscious than a debutante, for weight robs planes of performance and bomb-carrying capacity. As a result, these bombing plane propeller blades get coats of paint as thin as the sugar icing on today's cakes. A primary coat, a midnight black finish, and a yellow tip are sprayed on under pressure to form a protecting, non-reflecting covering which weights only a few ounces. Powerful suction ducts draw excess spray away from the operator and into the man-made waterfall in the background at this Nash-Kelvinator war plant. Infra-red lamps, like those used in automobile body plants, are then employed to dry the paint in five minutes, as compared to the six hours it formerly took to do the job. Press Bureau, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, Detroit, July 20, 1942." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft propellers."