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WWII Industrial Facilities: Authorized Federally Funded Facilities

Arkansas
City Operator Product Type War Product or Service
Bauxite Aluminum Co of America New plant Mining, stripping crushing & drying bauxite
Bauxite Aluminum Co of America New plant Alumina, Synthetic cryolite, Aluminum Fluoride
El Dorado Lion Oil Refining Co Petroleum refinery Butadiene ( feed stock )
El Dorado Lion Oil Refining Co, Lion Chemical Corp New plant Ammonium nitrate, ammonia
El Dorado Root Petroleum Co Petroleum refining Aviation gasoline, 100/130
Fort Smith Residue Co Zinc oxide waelz zinc oxide
Hope U S Government, War Department, Ordnance Plants, Proving Grounds ordnance testing ordnance testing
Jacksonville Ford Bacon and Davis Inc, Arkansas Ordnance Plant Powder train time fuses, artillery fuses and boosters, percussion primers, artillery primers, detonators, bomb fuses and boosters Powder train time fuses, artillery fuses and boosters, percussion primers, artillery primers, detonators, bomb fuses and boosters
Jones Mill Aluminum Co of America New plant Electric light and power ( steam power plant )
Jones Mill Aluminum Co of America New plant Aluminum smelting
Marche Cities Service Defense Corp Ammonium picrate Ammonium picrate
Pine Bluff Ammunition Container Corp Fiber Containers Fiber Containers
Pine Buff Sanderson and Porter, Pine Bluff Arsenal Incendiary bomb loading, shell filling, chlorine, lewisite, sulphur monochloride, mustard, arsenic trichloride Incendiary bomb loading, shell filling, chlorine, lewisite, sulphur monochloride, mustard, arsenic trichloride
Shumaker U S Government, Ordnance Plants ROCKETS ROCKETS
Shumaker U S Government, Ordnance Plants Ordnance material ordnance material
Various Cities Service Co, Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co Gas mfg and trans. Gas mfg and trans.