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    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated
    ipdb_id
    6463
    ipdb.model_number
    3-A-20c
    ipdb.notable_features
    This is a US Navy anti-aircraft gun infrared scorer. It is a metal box with dials and knobs on its front and measures approximately 18 by 9 by 11 inches. This item was manufactured during World War II. The identification plate screwed onto the item indicates: Special Devices Division USN Bureau of Aeronautics Device Number 3-A-20c Contract No. NOa(s)4343 Serial Number 655 INFRA-RED SCORER (AA) Manufactured by J.H. Keeney & Co., Inc. Chicago, Illinois
    ipdb.notes
    On March 16, 1942, the War Production Board ordered the shutdown of all manufacture of pinball games, jukeboxes, weighing machines, and other amusement machines, effective May 1, 1942, to concentrate materials for the war effort. Approximately thirty companies, mostly in the Chicago area, and employing about 10,000 people, were affected by this order. Eleven of the thirty companies were already producing parts for bomb sights, artillery shells, parts for airplane gun turrets, and other war items.