"...They have documented history..." No 'they' don't.
"...documented as 8mm ammo..." That's about how an M1icon Rifle was blown.
"...during a Great Depression..." Nonsense. The issue was well known and fixed long before 1929(Stock Market crashed on October 29, 1929.). Nobody was doing any developmental work on '03's during any part of the Great Depression. Too busy working on the M1 Rifle until 1936 and finalizing it's development(like fixing the 7th round stoppage issue.).
Anyway, the issue is not if it'll blow, but when, maybe. The receivers were found to have been burned during heat treating without any kind of scientific measurement of the heat. The heat treat guys were judging the heat of the steel by eye. It was found that the steel was actually hotter on a sunny day than the guys thought and that resulted in the steel being burned. Think how toast gets burned. In any case, there's no way to tell if a particular receiver was burned or not, so the Ordnance Dept., of which J.S. Hatcher was Boss, opted to withdraw from active service all “low-number” Springfields. A lot of which got reissued during W.W. II because of yet another shortage of rifles.