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Truman warns against serious cuts in defense appropriations.

Former President Truman speaks before Reserve Officers Association in Philadelphia. Sign before bank of microphones reads 'Reserves Ask Only The Right To Be Ready'. Truman warns against serious cuts in defense appropriations during the tense world situation. Crowd applauds.

Date: 1953, June 29
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040144
President Eisenhower signs a bill that sends wheat to famine stricken Pakistan.

President Eisenhower signs a bill that sends million tons of surplus wheat to famine stricken Pakistan. Sign reads 'Wheat for Pakistan from the US'. Grains poured out into containers aboard a ship at Baltimore. Church organization men and 4-H clubs collect dried milk for needy children of the world. Women and children drink milk.

Date: 1953, June 29
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040145
Snow scenes are shown along with heat wave headlines, beach scenes, pool scenes, and kids playing with fire hydrants.

News about a hot weather heat wave in various American newspapers. Views of people at crowded Coney Island Beach and SteepleChase Park Pool. Children stand in a public fountain to cool off. Group of boys on a city street open a fire hydrant and play in the water spraying from the fire hydrant. 1950's cars pass by getting wet in the process. Man drinks a whole mug of beer. Narrator contrasts the heat wave with snow scenes from prior winter storms. Man shovels snow. Men on streets during a blizzard. Snow covered vehicles, buildings, and streets. A dog near a fire hydrant in the snow. A man pushes a car stuck in the snow. Close up of spinning tires in snow.

Date: 1953, September 7
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040150
Early 1950s college campus fashions: Women wear hoodwinkers and tweed dresses, shown at Avon Old Farms school in Connecticut.

'Fashions on the Campus' shows two young women and a young men seated on a wall at the Avon Old Farms school in Avon, Connecticut. A young woman wears a "hoodwinker" with tassle on hood matching tassles at neckline. Two women with hoods in a room of the Avon Old Farms school. A woman wears a tweed dress, having coffee with a young man. She unbuttons her jacket and shows the man. Women pose in tweed outfits.

Date: 1953, September 7
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040155
Toy train for school children at Wichita.

Joyland Amusement park at Wichita. School children get on a toy train which leads to the school. Train crosses a bridge. Children enter the school.

Date: 1953, September 9
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040163
Cowboys ride bucking horses at Pendleton Rodeo.

Native American Indian dancers including some youth perform at a 3 day Jamboree and rodeo event in Pendleton , Oregon. Native American Indian men and women arrive on horseback at Pendleton Rodeo. They are dressed in traditional Indian regalia. Crowd cheers in stand as rodeo is underway. Cowboys ride bucking horses. Cowboy Joe Chase emerges from stable 3 riding famous horse named War Paint. Chase falls to the ground, "tossed like salad" in the words of the narrator. A cowboy jumps from a horse to a bull and wrestles the bull to the ground.

Date: 1953, September 14
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040164