Description: |
The Hoosier News is an employee newsletter of Indiana Army Ammunition Plant which was a smokeless powder plant on Highway 62 in Charlestown, Indiana. It was published between May 1972 and December 1981. In 1977, the format change and it became fewer pages because they started a second newsletter called Between the Lines. The newsletter contains plant news, human interest stories of employees and want ads. The U.S. Government began purchasing land in 1940 and contracted with du Pont to build the plant and manufacture smokeless powder ordnance in Charlestown, Indiana. Originally, the plant was called Indiana Ordnance Works and later became known as Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (INAAP). The plant produced ordnance between 1941 and 1992 for the United States government. |
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Origin: | 1980-02-29 |
Publisher: |
ICI Americas Inc |
Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15078coll17/id/14465 |
Collection: |
Clark County Collections |
Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Copyright: |
Charlestown-Clark County Public Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners and/or holders of other rights such as publicity and/or privacy rights is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. There may be content that is protected as works for hire copyright held by the party that commissioned the original work and/or under the copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. |
Geography: |
Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana 38.436824, -85.658816 |
Subjects: |
Mileage reduction Energy conservation Indiana Army Ammunition Plant ICI Americas Inc Clark County (Ind.) United States. Army Ordnance and Ordnance Stores Explosives Industry--Indiana Gunpowder, Smokeless Ordnance manufacture Black powder manufacture Charlestown (Ind.) Newsletters--Indiana Indiana Ordnance Works (U.S.) Hoosier Ordnance Plant Indiana Arsenal Newsletters--Indiana |
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