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CIO Union officials visit White House.

Phillip Murray, President of the Congress of Indstrial Organization (CIO) and Arthur Goldberg., Chief Counsel , CIO, and other members of the CIO Steel Workers Union, walking abreast, as they approach the White House to meet with the President. They are interviewed and photographed by members of the press and then enter the White House. Cinematographers stand outside and record the event.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1952, May 3
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049715
Following sinking of U.S. merchant ships, America enters World War I as President Wilson signs the declaration.

View of American ship being torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic. President Wilson asks the Congress for a declaration of War. Congress approves and the President signs it on April 6, 1917, adding his signature below that of Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President and President of the Senate.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1917, April 6
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049720
Gold mined out near Cincinnati in Owensville, Ohio.

Gold reserves found in Owensville, Ohio. Men dig out gold from waters of a creek in Owensville, Ohio near Cincinnati. Ore of gold laid out on a platform. Powdered ore after removal of impurities.

Location: Owensville Ohio USA
Date: 1933, November 9
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049752
Aviation business and military leaders meet at Consolidated Aircraft; views of aircraft assembly plant operations

A meeting of business and U.S. military leaders at a Consolidated Aircraft assembly plant during World War II. View of General Henry "Hap" Arnold, Consolidated Aircraft founder Reuben H. Fleet, and William S. Knudsen (President of General Motors, and appointed by President Roosevelt as Director General, Office of Production Management. He developed the "Knudsen Plan" for rapid U.S. war materiel production expansion in World War 2). The three men are walking in front of an aircraft hangar with partially finished PB2Y Coronado flying boat aircraft at the Consolidated Aircraft factory in San Diego, California. Group of American military and industrial leaders gathered talking at the site, including Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company, and James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, President of North American Aviation. (Consolidated, North American, Douglas, and Ford all produced B-24 bombers during the war.) Change of scene: Men at unidentified location view blueprints for expanded aircraft manufacturing and assembly facilities. View of war production factory workers as they stream out of a factory at end of shift. Views of PB2Y Coronado flying boat patrol bomber, and B-24 Liberator bombers under construction. Views of factory operations with metal forging and tempering work. Views of wing and engine assembly operations.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049957
U.S. Army DH-4 bomber drops 2,000 pound bombs on the practice target USS Alabama, BB-8, and destroys it in the Chesapeake Bay

Side view of a U.S. Army 1st Provisional Air Brigade DH-4 single-engine bomber aircraft taking off from an Aircraft Carrier. 2,000 pound bombs are dropped on the USS Alabama, BB-8, an intentional practice target in the Chesapeake Bay. Huge explosions on the target. Dense cloud of smoke rises and tall masts come toppling down. The battleship rolls partially and sinks in shallow water.

Location: Chesapeake Bay Maryland USA
Date: 1921, September
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049969
Will Rogers and Wiley Post take off in their floatplane from Fairbanks, Alaska. The plane later crashed, killing both.

Will Rogers and Wiley Post pose for pictures taken just before boarding Post's self-modified float plane that crashed en route to Point Barrow, Alaska, killing both Rogers and Post. The floatplane takes off from water. Map shows route: Juneau to Dawson, Fairbanks, Alaska; to Anchorage, Alaska and then back to Fairbanks. The words, "Point Barrow" animate on map - line running to Point Barrow, where the plane crashed after an engine failure, while taking off from a lagoon just outside of Point Barrow. Aerial views of the Arctic areas.

Location: Fairbanks Alaska USA
Date: 1935, August 15
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049976
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