"Smiles" O' Timmons, who has lost and arm and a leg, climbs a ladder at the Annual Firemen's Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then performs stunt in which he dives from a height of 100 feet into a small pool containing water only 4 feet deep.
Steel workers arriving for work as the new Carnegie-llinois steel company plant (subsidiary of U.S. Steel) opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Officials inspect the plant. First operations of rolling hot steel begin. Workers entering plant. View of hot steel being rolled out and cooled.
Start of the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in World War 1. United States Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels opens the Liberty Loan drive, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On this occasion he delivers a speech in front of a large gathering. He also reviews a parade of 10,000 mill workers. Mill workers loaded in trucks and other vehicles move past people in a street. A Naval band plays at the parade. Mill workers carrying flags and banners march. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps during an interview at Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. He answers questions related to Presidential election of 1964. He accepts his name being mentioned as a Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate but says that the final decision will be taken at the party convention. He says that Senator Goldwater does not have great chances of winning against President Johnson because of the latter's popularity.
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps delivers a speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shriver speaks how the Jewish Peace Corps volunteers have been serving in four Muslim countries. He also highlights the role Peace Corps have played in poor countries. He talks about racial discrimination and reveals that 80 percent of poor people in America are Whites. He appeals for personal commitment from people to remove poverty, the way Peace Corps have been doing in various countries.
A film titled '144 cars stored in space for six! Novel device intended to relieve traffic parking problems' Cars parked vertically at a parking in East Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Cars being driven into cages and then lifted by elevators to be parked vertically.
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