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 �How Inventions and Machines Speed Up the Work of the Red Cross in New York

Photos by Courtesy of American Red Cross

��Simplifying Sweaters One day a man got tired watching his wife laboriously knit a sweater. "Too slow, my dear," he said; then went out and made this device. It worked so well that the gratified wife gave it to the Red Cross

��A New Cutting Machine

Cutting garments for war refugees. In the Red Cross workroom where this electric cutter is used 250,000 yards of cloth are cut each month. It will cut through some 200 thicknesses of cloth at once

���Making Clothes for Refugees

Another scene in the Red Ctoss workrooms where garments for war refugees are made. The machine on the left is spreading cloth on ninety-foot tables at the rate of 1 ,000 yards an hour. On the right machines are shown cutting the cloth into garments

Winding Wool on Bobbins

A device used in the Red Cross model workroom for winding a hank of wool on bobbins so it can be handled easily when used on knitting machines

��A Measuring Table

A table laid out in sciuarcs. Red Cross workers can be .sure of mak- ing surgical dressings accoriiing to specifications if they use this tirst- aid chart for correct measurements

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