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President Eisenhower bids farewell to Prime Minister of Canada, Louis St. Laurent, at Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia
West Virginia State troopers hold doors as President Eisenhower and the Prime Minister of Canada, Louis St. Laurent, come out of the Greenbrier Resort at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States. They are joined by U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, and Bernard M. Shanley, aide to the President. They all laugh and smile as they pose for photographers. The Prime Minister waves at spectators, and shakes President Eisenhowers hand as they say farewell. A 1956 Fleetwood cadillac automobile is parked on the drive with flag of United States and ensign of Canada on its fenders. The car drives away with the Prime Minister and led by a West Virginia State police car.
Timeline summary of the events and achievements of President Eisenhower's administration.
"The Eisenhower Story": A pre-election pro-Eisenhower propaganda film designed to highlight Eisenhower's qualifications for reelection as President in the 1956 election. Factory whistle blows and men entering a factory. Car chassis factory assembly line. Locomotive engineer blows train whistle and railroad locomotive with cultivators on a flat bed car. Cultivators harvesting grain. Woman carries groceries from shop to a 1950's sedan car parked on street. View of 1950's automobile highway traffic and aerial view of highways being built under his plans for highway construction and road expansion. View of Eisenhower at swearing in ceremony during his inauguration as President in 1952. In his speech, Eisenhower emphasizes that, "we stand ready to engage with any and all others in joint efforts to remove the causes of mutual fear and distrust among nations..." Newspaper headline 'Korean Truce Signed' at time of armistice during Korean War. American troops disembark ship and greet family. Secretary of State Dulles talking with German chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Secretary John Dulles seen also with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Eisenhower and Churchill at Geneva conference, along with Soviet leader Khrushchev and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. Eisenhower speaks before United Nations about efforts to form an "atom pool." He notes United States "determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma...." Newspaper headlines 'Eisenhower Signs Sea Way Bill'. Construction of Saint Lawrence Seaway. 'Budget' and 'tax cuts' news in newspapers, including headline, "White House ends all wage controls...." Farmer plows field with tractor. Construction of new buildings and highway construction through Eisenhower programs. Views of the newly established Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Workers filing cards in giant room of file drawers and cabinets. Nurse draws vaccine into syringe. Children are vaccinated (likely polio vaccine). President Eisenhower meets leaders from different countries at White House, including England's Queen Mother and King Paul, Queen Frederica of Greece, and Prime Minister St-Laurent of Canada. Eisenhower at press conference discussing disarmament notes importance of the "elimination of opportunity of surprise attack." View of shore towers and listening platforms and missiles rising on platforms to protect America from attacks. First nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571 ) launched on January 21, 1954 by Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower in Connecticut. Plane taking off from aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59) while underway at sea. Formation of Northrop F-89 Scorpion aircraft in flight.
Ski patrol trainees take out a buried skiers from snow and take him on a toboggan on Canadian rockies in Canada.
Ski patrols save avalanche victims in Canada. The Canadian rockies. The goats on the snow covered mountains. The skiers ski on the mountains. Avalanche on the Canadian rockies. The ski patrol trainees ski an reach the avalanche area. A skier being buried in the snow. The ski patrol trainees use shovel to remove the snow. They take out the body of the skier. The trainees take him on a toboggan.
Polio vaccine developers use rhesus monkeys during their research in Canada
Opening scene shows Peace Tower (Gothic clock tower) and Canadian Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Canada. In the close foreground, outside an iron gate, a statue of Joan of Arc is seen, with Ottawa Parliament Hill buildings behind. The entire area is covered in snow. Next scene is in a lab where two men shave hair off of a Rhesus monkey as part of Polio vaccine research and development. Next scene is outside the Peace Tower, as Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare Paul Martin, Sr., (Joseph James Guillaume Paul Martin) stops and is seen seen speaking to someone off camera. Paul Martin Sr. ascends steps and enters Parliament Building. Next scenes show lab technicians removing a monkey from a cage. With help of others, he shaves the hair of the rhesus monkey. A monkey inside a cage. The monkey eats a banana. A man takes the monkey out from the cage.
Damage to buildings and rescue workers after coal gas explosion and fire at a coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada
Coal gas explosion and fire at a coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada. Destroyed buildings and tracks by the explosion and fire. Ambulances and rescue vehicles running on road. Rescue worker send the eighty nine injured workers rescued in ambulance. Twenty six still trapped. Women talk outside the mines..
A Canadian jet fighter aircraft crashes on a convent building killing thirteen occupants in Ottawa, Canada.
A Canadian jet fighter crashes on a convent building in Ottawa, Canada. View of the burning and damaged building. Thirteen occupants died during the crash. Officers converse with church officials. Investigators interview to find the cause of the crash. The officers inspect the area to find sufficient clues.