Treatment and effects of the venereal disease syphilis in United States. A veteran crippled due to syphilis stands as United States veteran troops of World War I march on the street. The World War 1 veteran sits on a high-back wheel chair as a boy pushes him along a sidewalk past community homes. Scientists and chemists work in the laboratory for the detection and cure of syphilis. Technicians works with pipettes and vials. Research for new treatment of syphilis. A microscope kept near a chemist. Patients stand as their tests come negative or positive. A patient takes injections for treatment. A view of colleges (male students playing chess), schools, U.S. Navy ships, and other institutions where infected people come in intimate contact and the disease spreads fast. Animated diagram explains the spread of the disease. A man reads the advertisements of a medical quack. The syphilis cripples men. A patient sits on a chair. Patients sit outside a doctor's room. Houses on animated map without shadow of the disease.
United States provides aid to Allies. United States President Franklin Roosevelt seated in his office. Lend Lease Administrator Edward R. Stettinius reports to President Roosevelt about the aid provided to her allies. Lend-Lease shipments prepared and shipped. Merchandise, tanks, planes sent to Soviet Union and Britain. Rail cars carry crates of machine tools made by Bullard Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. These crates are seen being loaded in a ship destined for the Soviet Union. A ship at sea. Smoke rises up from smokestack. (World War II period).
United States High Command holds World War II war planning parley. The U.S. High Command leaders stand and talk. General Henry (Hap) Arnold, General George Marshall, Admiral Ernst King, Admiral Land, Admiral William Leahy, Presidential advisor, Harry Hopkins, Paul V. McNutt, Civilian Head of Manpower, and Elmer Davis, Head, Office of War Information, in the conference. The personages are seated on a table. Food served on the table.
United States shipyards launch ships flat-bottom tank carriers. A large number of vessels are produced in order to meet the requirement of World War. Henry J Kaiser assembles model of a victory ship. A ship named 'Robert E Peary' is built in record time. Huge crowd gathered during the launch of the ship.
Man turns a huge cylindrical specimen on a lathe. Chips and sparks seen flying from the tool bit as machining progresses. Views of a milling machine in operation. Sparks seen as tool bit moves over surface of specimen. Smooth shiny surface appears in wake of tool movement. A man and a woman work in a laboratory. They wear aprons. A meter gives reading of electric current in amperes. A woman works on a measuring instrument. The woman looks through an optical device of the instrument. A United States Army Colonel holds a heavy, smoothly machined, block of metal and talks to two other men about it.
People operate precision measuring instruments in the United States. A laboratory technician uses tweezers to place small specimen into tray. He slides tray into a measuring device and reads value on scale calibrated from zero to 100. Technician in white coat stands next to tall measuring device containing rheostats, wires, and dials. He operates the controls of the device A man uses a torch to modify glass connections on glass apparatus in a laboratory. A knob of an instrument is rotated. A woman, using tweezers, picks up a small specimen from a porcelain dish and places it into a laboratory oven. she then reads measurments about the specimen. She wears a white uniform, and personal identification badge and dosimeter, A woman technician, dressed in white lab coat, moves a measuring plate, held in her right hand, over a large paper containing a stain. The paper is labeled "Com Waste." A meter, in her left hand, gives reading of electric current in microamperes.