Senate Hearings,1947 in Washington DC. Officials and dignitaries seated for Senate Hearings, 1947. Howard Hughes, Jr. is questioned. He testifies about profits made on war contracts by him before Senate War Investigating Committee. He says that he has not made any profits on war contracts. Views of Hughes and other dignitaries sitting during the hearings.
Senate Hearings,1947 in Washington DC. Officials and dignitaries seated for Senate Hearings, 1947. Mr. Johnson, a businessman, is questioned. He testifies before Senate War Investigating Committee. A memorandum, made by him is passed to Mr Johnson. He reads it and answers. He testifies about the memorandum and is questioned about his conversation with Mr. Nelson. Dignitaries and members of the Congress seated during the hearings.
The Great Blizzard of 1947 hits New York City in the United States. Program host Dennis James introduces. A snow-covered bus drives through 1947 blizzard in New York City. Snow covers the William Tecumseh Sherman Memorial at Grand Army Plaza in New York City. A taxi cab turns a corner through heavy snow. Pedestrians struggling through blizzard as they walk. Sedan slipping and hitting curb. Heavy snow falling through spot light. Aerial view of New York City skyline after blizzard, including Central Park, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Parked cars on the street covered in 26 inches of heavy snow after snowstorm. Parked city buses blocking street in New York City after snowfall. Heavy snow covers ships in New York Harbor and railway tracks. Stranded passengers drink hot beverages inside a subway train car. Snow removal in New York City by snowplows after the blizzard. New York City. Times Square covered under heavy snow, with only a few people. Men shoveling snow from their cars. Park Ave. at E. 77 street sign. Dennis James wraps up the program by advertising the United States Marine Corps.
Dock workers push a 1947 Morris Eight Series E saloon automobile onto a lift platform. Sign on car reads, "Nuffield Exports." Workers arrange padded wooden barriers on side of car to protect during lift. Car lifts out of view. Dock workers push another car into place for lift. View of 1947 Morris Eight Series E saloon car lowering into ship cargo hold.
Senate War Investigating Subcommittee Hearings,1947 in Washington DC. Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. is seen holding a head phone speaker to his good ear as he listens and reacts silently to testimony of others at the hearing.
Firing of a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. An XP-84 jet aircraft on a test flight in California. Scenes of devastation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An atomic bomb test conducted in Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Large smoke cloud rises. Americans expressing disgust with war and confidence in ability to protect against it in future. Newspaper headline about Armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918. Victory parade in New York City. Close up view of Adolf Hitler as he speaks forcefully to a German audience. V2 rocket being launched in Germany. German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet rocket plane in flight. Map depicting uranium deposits world wide. An XB-36 bomber in flight with landing gear extended. A huge formation of various warplanes in flight, high overhead. A wartime tank assembly plant. American army troops on parade. A United Nations meeting in session. Peaceful scenes of American soldiers in Hawaii before World War II in the Pacific. Hawaiian Hula dancers. Japanese carrier-based Aichi D3A1 dive bomber in flight during attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Bombed U.S. warships and facilities in Pearl Harbor. American Army officer and civilian discussing wisdom of maintaing large standing army. Army recruits are seen in the U.S. Army Universal Military Training Experimental Unit at Fort Knox, in 1947. They are seen in quarters, studying; taking part in sports (baseball); and attending religious services in a base chapel. Several trainees in a field tent, working with numerous tape decks in some kind of military communications activity.