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Women wearing and showing typical fashions of dresses and stockings in late 1930s
A woman wearing a nightgown sits on her bed. Another woman gives her a dress to wear. She takes the dress and puts it on her bed. She wears the dress, an looks out a window through venetian blinds. The woman demonstrates a florescent light to another woman. She wears a necklace and bangles. She models several fashions of hosiery and shows texture of hosiery weave. A woman brings tea to her on a bamboo tea cart without wheel, that slides instead of rolling. She sits on a sofa. She lights a lamp.
A woman cooks food on a gas range in kitchen. She fries bacon and egg, grates cheese, cores apple, slices bread
A woman homemaker works in a kitchen in the 1930s. Housewife wears an apron over her dress and cooks bacon and eggs on a gas range. She also checks on a casserole in the oven. She grates cheese, cores an apple, and cuts bread.
A woman demonstrates a plastic shower curtain and a folding bathtub screen
A woman prepares to take a shower. She demonstrates a plastic shower curtain. Bathroom fittings like taps and shower in view. A bathtub in the background. In another scene, the woman wears a dressing gown and enters a bathtub behind a translucent folding screen.
Highlights in career of U.S. Air Force General Henry (Hap) Arnold. World War II.
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. Army Air Corps Chief, General Arnold created Civilian Contract flying schools to train pilots. Recruits seen entering Spartan School of Aeronautics, Air Corps Training Detachment. Trainees being issued parachutes. Student pilots flying in Stearman training airplanes. P-51 mustang airplanes taxiing and in flight. Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo. General Arnold sitting with General Doolittle. President Franklin Roosevelt presenting the Medal of Honor to General Doolittle. Army Air Corps flyers being decorated by General Arnold. Scenes of air war in Europe from gun cameras of American aircraft. Lieutenant General Arnold mingling with air crews at an air base. An aircraft plant building B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. General Arnold with War Production Chief, Bill Knudsen.
Following Kristallnacht, former President Hoover and others make nationwide plea for Jews facing Nazi brutality in Europe.
President Franklin D Roosevelt leads the nation's protest against prosecution of Jews in Germany. Roosevelt during a recording of the plea. In Germany, Jewish owned shops with broken windows following Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) depict Nazi brutality in Germany. Palo Alto, California: Former President Herbert Hoover expresses indignation at the brutal intolerance of the Nazis and predicts their 'moral isolation'. He also expresses American support for Jews and Christians in Germany and compares their brutality to the destruction of religious worship by the Bolsheviks in Russia. New York: Reverend RI Gannon of Fordham University and Methodist Bishop Edwin H Hughes raise their voices against the outbreaks of violence and hate against Jews in Europe. They compare the Nazis to the original Huns and make a plea for the Jews.
Model airplane enthusiasts at an outdoor gathering on an airfield. Some models display Academy of Model Aeronautics numbers.
Model airplane builders and enthusiasts walk together carrying their respective model airplanes, in a gathering on an airfield. Some of the model airplanes have Academy of Model Aeronautics numbers painted on their wings, such as, AMA-6744, which can be seen on one. A large tent is seen in the background, as well as automobiles, a fuel truck, and airplanes, in the distance.