Preparation of Miltown tablets by Wallace Laboratories in the United States. (Miltown was the brand name for Meprobamate, the the first widely used psychotropic drug in America). A sign on a machine reads 'Miltown Tablets'. Powdered medicine mixed in a container in a medical laboratory. Containers with attached pipes in the factory. A man looks at the containers. Fine mixture in a container. A production machine from which powdered medicine comes out. Women wearing apron and gloves in a laboratory. They are filling the tablets or pills in the bottles. Empty bottles on a machine are being filled with tablets. The bottles are seen being packed. Cartons of the Miltown tablets on conveyor belts for shipment all over the world. A globe of the world rotates to illustrate the global distribution of the medicine.
In the 1960s, the Budd Company produced the Pioneer III electric m.u. coach for intercity travel. Here a prototype Pioneer III rail passenger car is seen, pushed by a Rail Diesel Car (RDC) as the locomotive power. People seated inside the train demonstrate size and comfort. (Mid-1950s automobiles seen parked at station where train arrives.) Engineers inspect the disc brake parts of the truck and a ventilator. The train is then pulled in the opposite direction by the RDC. Close up views of the train wheels near the tracks.
Poliomyelitis vaccine transported in the United States. Poliomyelitis vaccine displayed. Men put cartons of Poliomyelitis vaccine on a conveyor belt. A man pastes the labels on the cartons. A truck is being parked in front of a door. Two men lift up the door. A sign 'Barry' written on the truck. The cartons of the vaccine on the conveyor belt and on trolleys. A man opens the door where the medicines are kept. A man puts the packed cartons of Polio vaccine on a trolley.
Behind the scenes view of preparations for a press conference with the President in the United States. Photographers prepare to take pictures. The journalists gather in a hall for the press conference. The seal of the President of the United States. Men and women of the media sit and wait for the President.
U.S. soldiers on a Patton M-48 tank move forward in desert maneuvers in the United States. U.S. soldiers with a gun mounted on a tank. A soldier speaks over a radio. A soldier wearing helmet and headphones. Soldiers on tanks move forward. A tower in the foreground. Tanks parked in a line and soldiers around the tank. Tanks on sandy terrain. A soldier in a jeep speaks over a radio.
U.S. soldiers work on various parts of a tank in the United States. They sweep treads and clean tank gun barrels with long rods. Soldiers tighten parts of a tank. They lubricate parts of a tank. They tighten a clamp on the barrel.
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