Tourists visit the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol building in Washington DC. Tourists enter a building. Man collects tickets at the entrance. Statues of Senator Robert M La Follette, Hey Long, W J Bryant. Tourists look at row of statues. Guide educates tourists with a painting on the wall in the background. Sculpted face of Abraham Lincoln.
The Jack and Heintz war plant in Bedford, Ohio, during World War 2, where the company made various aircraft parts and accessories for the U.S. Military. Opens showing several employees at work with a chalk board behind them displaying box scores up to the last inning of a baseball game between St. Louis and Cleveland. One employee enters a "2" in the last half of the 9th inning, showing a 2-1 win for St. Louis over Cleveland. Local workers nod their satisfaction. This segment is repeated two more times, with the man writing in the "2" again. Closeup of the box score with last half of 9th inning blank. The worker with chalk repeats his entry of "2" in the last box. This time, a worker tunes a radio sitting below the box score and listens. Closeup of a fish bowl atop the radio, containing fish. Closeup of employee holding his ear to the radio as he tunes it. He lights a cigarette. Closeup of fish swimming in the fish bowl. Camera zooms in on fish bowl showing Company Logo and JAHCo. plus "One for All and All for One,"and a flag showing half Navy and half Army, all imprinted on the fish bowl.
Typesetters at work in offices of the Hebrew newpaper, Haaretz, in Palestine. Supervisor checks their work. View over shoulder of a typesetter as he selects individual pieces of type from box and assembles a line of type. Printer assembling lines of type into a page. Supervisor reviewing the assembled page. Printer rolls light layer of ink on the type, covers it with a sheet of newspring, taps lightly with cloth and then removes the page proof, which is examined by the supervisor. View of newpaper being printed by presses. A military man in uniform talks with newspaper editors. The editors critique a proof of a paper and make corrections. Outside the newspaper office building, delivery men and boys receive their newspapers for delivery by bicycle and handcart.
The Mobile Jewish Brigade of Tel Monte in Haifa, Palestine. Brigade members undergo a rifle drill wearing uniform. Officers on horses march behind the Guards. Mobile Guards march on ground with Tel Monte village in the background. Mobile Guards run from the woods, lie down and fire rifles as part of the drill. Local man walks with his camel. (World War II period).
Water reservoir near settlements in Palestine. Car heads towards the water reservoir. Local man on mule leads three camels. Jewish worker opens sluice at pumping station. Water gushing out of a large pipe. Water goes into wheat field through mud canals. Worker changes the course of water to another field.
The Life Magazine company circulation office in Chicago. Women check and sort mail, letters, and cheque payments in the circulation office. Man empties sack with bundles of letters. Sacks with United States mail written on it. Men carry the sacks. Women open letters, register and stack payment checks, and use adding machines.
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