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City of Dayton Ohio takes numerous measures to improve transportation and provide amenities that make life on the job easier for war worker during World War II
Opening scene shows workers arriving for a shift at a war plant in Dayton, Ohio, during World War 2. The arrive in cars and public transport (not seen) to stream across the road in front of the defense plant, as they enter. Others are seen leaving defense plants, in large numbers as their shifts end. A sign at a war plant show a cartoon of Adolf Hitler riding in the empty back seat of a man's car. It reads:"Hitler rides in the empty seat. Double Up!" Men and women are seen standing at a designated Transportation Center to arrange for sharing rides with others. A man steps from a sidewalk, in town, to get into a car that stops to pick him up as part of that activity. People gathering for buses under newly built shelters. A sign on a bus reads: We deliver the war workers. They deliver the goods." Buses moving through the city. One stops and many workers exit, in a town center. Other workers are seen lined up to board rail road trains. Workers entering their private cars in a crowded parking lot at a war plant. Workers crowd into the entrances of a defense plant, where their identification badges are evident on their work clothes. Large numbers of workers leave at the same time others arrive when a shift change occurs. Plant managers discuss ways to minimize absenteeism. View of workers in a crowded cafeteria providing hot meals. A sign reading: "Ladies Dining Room." outside a room filled with women workers having a meal. Men at work in a machine shop. A factory steam whistle blows, signalling a rest period, as workers take a break for a snack or a smoke. A sign on a door identifies the "Ladies Health Department." Hours posted on the door correspond to various shifts operating at the plant. Another worker health service is that of a dentist on the premises. View of dentist and nurse working on a patient. Another service area in a war plant shows clerks helping workers to obtain ration books, auto and driver licenses, dealing with Selective Service (draft) matters, income tax questions, ride sharing, and telephone and light utilities. Scene shifts to the Headquarters Building of the National Cash Register Company in Dayton. Inside, a company manager is interviewing a worker who plans to quit. They discuss the workers reasons and seemingly resolve some problem, because they shake hands and the film narrator implies that the worker is going to remain on the job. A factory building all lit up at night. Inside men and women are seen performing war work on machines, just as in the daytime. Next, a group of plant managers are seen being trained in particular skills required at their jobs. A view of the city from across a river. A radio announcer with station WHIO. A montage of newspaper clipping related to war workers.
Contribution of WPA federal buildings projects in Ohio, United States, during the Great Depression.
From a film titled "A better Ohio". Scenes of Great Depression period in the United States: Idle men, closed factories, men searching through trash, sleeping on sidewalk. Scenes of post depression recovery: Smoke from factories, lines of workers, ample food, happy families. Views of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Ohio: Airstrip construction of runways at Cleveland Airport; construction of Dayton Airport runways and aerial view of the Dayton Airport area; pipe capping and sealing work at abandoned coal mines to prevent pollution of local water supply; remodeled orphanage in Defiance, Ohio, with orphan children playing on the grounds of the Defiance County Children's Home; repaired and updated buildings at the Home for Sailor's and Soldier's Orphans at Xenia, Ohio; newly built dairy farm at the Sailor's and Soldiers Home; Rebuilt wing of the old people's home for care of the elderly in Napoleon, Ohio; view of the newly constructed tuberculosis sanatorium in Toledo, Ohio (the William Roche Tuberculosis Hospital). Scenes of fast moving flood waters during flood of Spring 1936 in Ohio. Flood water rushing past flooded buildings. WPA -constructed dams, levees, and retaining walls are seen during building process. African American and white workers seen digging together with shovels on the project. New trees are planted at the sites.
Dayton Ohio street, Wright home, workshop, the Wright Museum and the first glider flight of the Wright brothers in the United States.
A film 'We saw it happen' about the history of aviation in the United States. In Dayton, Ohio: Houses seen along Hawthorn Street. A still picture shows the Wright brothers in their youth. View down Hawthorn Street with several 1940s and early 1950s cars parked along the Dayton street. Exterior view of 7 Hawthorn Street, home of the Wright Brothers. Interiors of the Wright home in Dayton. The workshop of the Wright brothers. Machines in the workshop. The "Wright Cycle Co" and Wright Museum (moved from Dayton to Greenfield village in Dearborn, Michigan.) A powered engine prepared in the workshop. Sweeping view of windswept beach area of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where the Wright brothers conducted test flights in 1900-1902. Another view of Hawthorn Street in Dayton. A boy on the sidewalk. View of the 4 cylinder airplane engine first designed by the Wright Brothers. Narrator speaks of December 17, 1903 Wright Brothers flight. View of the Wright Flyer in flight overhead. Scene changes to aerial side view of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight (this is aircraft YB-52,the second XB-52). The B-52 banks left and away.
Orville Wright is flanked by people and dignitaries place wreaths on the grave of Wilbur Wright in Dayton, Ohio.
Wrights Brothers are honored in Dayton, Ohio. A still photograph of the Wright Brother's home in Dayton. Orville Wright flanked by army, navy and civilian representatives. A funeral ceremony in a graveyard for Wilbur Wright. Various dignitaries walk up to a tombstone. Men place wreaths on the grave of Wilbur Wright. A street in Dayton. Wright's home and bicycle shop in Dayton. A model of Wright Brothers' first aircraft on a stand. The engine of the first Wright aircraft.
A line of early model aircraft and a model of the first Wright airplane on an exhibit in Dayton, Ohio.
The 25th birthday of the Wright Brother's first flight in Dayton, Ohio. A line of early model aircraft on an exhibit. A model of an early Wright brothers airplane. Two men sitting at the controls of the aircraft (which is a modified Wright Model B that is now located in the United States Air Force Museum near Dayton Ohio).
Railroad train derailment and destruction in Xenia Ohio due to a tornado during April 1974 super outbreak across 13 states
Ominous clouds in sky during Super Outbreak of tornadoes in April 1974 that hit regions in many states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the Canadian province of Ontario. Xenia Ohio city manager Bob Stewart seen talking to his wife. A man checks storm on radar during a tornado in United States. A man rolls a machine to other room. During recording, a man shows areas that come in tornado's range. Sheriff dispatcher gives warning to all police and sheriff personnel about the sighted tornado in Montgomery County. Dick Burroughs on phone at Miami Valley Disaster Services in Dayton Ohio. A freigh train entering Xenia, Ohio just as tornado, scene via a student's 8mm camera comes into view and bears down on Xenia Ohio. Tornado hits the city of Xenia. Reenactment as city manager's wife takes call from him warning of tornado and she heads for basement cover. U.S. Air Force dispatches emergency medical convoy from grounds of base hospital at Wright Patterson Field. View of medical staff from the base mobilizing with ambulances and heavy construction battalion. Box 21, an emergency group responds to siren. People gather and discuss their plan include Military Personnel. A man explains situation. Rescuers save victims from tornado and take away dead bodies to temporary morgues.
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