The National Aircraft Show at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma, United States. A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress followed by four United States Air Force F-102A Delta Daggers in flight. C-130 turbo prop transport aircraft parked on ground and open for viewing. Actress Jayne Mansfield is seen being escorted by an Air Force officer among the crowd at the air show. View of three USAF F-101 Voodoo aircraft, F-101A Voodoos and F-102A Delta Dagger aircraft in formation. F-100C Super Sabre airplanes in close formation flight. USAF B-66 Destroyer, B-47 Stratojet, Convair B-36 and B-52 Stratofortress aircraft in flight, along with the F-106 Starfighter. Also seen is the B-66 light bomber in flight. A woman who won as Miss Denmark is present during the ceremony as photographers take her picture.
The services of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States. Skilled workers are hired for the libraries and school. They repair and rebind the books. Books in shelves. Traveling libraries and mobile libraries in trucks bring books to more rural areas. People enter a traveling library on wheels. Nurses visit homes of people and instructing the maternity care of the children to their mothers. A nurse bathing an infant. Braille maps being developed. The blind people are instructed about the use of the Braille maps. Trachoma eye disease patients in rural areas are examined. Nurses examine them and they are taken to WPA clinics. Group of men, women, and children wait in clinic to be seen by nurse or doctor. People including a young girl and an older man taking eye and vision tests, reading eye charts, and being examined.
World War 2 bomber aircraft production by the Ford Motor Company in the United States at the Willow Run plant between Ypsilanti and Belleville Michigan. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford sitting on a wall, conversing. A building under construction in the background. A sign on the building reads: 'United States National Defense Willow Run Airplane Plant, Dedicated June 16, 1941. Designed and erected for Bomber Production by Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Founder-Edsel Ford President'. A United States Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber flying over a field. A group of workers posing outside the plant with a new bomber. The group includes Henry Ford II and Army Officers. Henry Ford II signing his name on the side of the last bomber built at Willow Run Several other people signing. Women workers signing. A crowd around the bomber. Aerial views of the plant.
Farmers transporting water for cattle in Kansas City, Missouri. Livestock on a farm. Emaciated, thin, and dead and dying cattle suffering from drought and difficult conditions during the Great Depression. A farmer working on the farm. Water is transported from far areas after a drought in the city. A farmer loading containers in a jeep.
Mays department store (owned by J.W. Mays) distributes garments to needy people in Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. People lined up outside the shop. Buildings in the area. Traffic on a street. Some people in the line are unruly and police work to restrain a woman. People get clothes.
Warm overcoats being distributed to needy people in Kansas City, Missouri by local merchant Louis A. Cumonow. People standing outside a store during the Great Depression. Buildings in the area. Mr. Cumonow distributes warm overcoats to people.
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