Interiors of Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio. Workers make navy rubber life saving rafts. Girl workers make form of raft on table, apply rubber cement to forms and prepare handles. Workers fill air raft with air hose and test pressure. Women apply rubber cement on handler. Man stack rafts on pile of rafts. Navy officer and plant officials check rafts and equipment. Man release air valve inflating raft. Officer and Plant officials talk.
Exteriors of Goodyear factory in Akron, Ohio. Sign reads 'War Industry, Don't Park'. Interiors of plant shows row of rubber life saving rafts. Girl checks tape seams and inspects rafts. Girls apply cement to rafts. Men cut rubber forms with hand machine. Girls carry raft in the background. Girls hand tacking seam on raft. World War II sign reads 'When You're AWOL You're Working For The Axis'.
Shell assembly at Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California during World War 2. Women riveters at work. Deck plates hoisted aboard Liberty ship in ways. Welders and burners on fore peak assembly. Hoisting after mast on ship in ways. Large crane hoisting and setting in place LIberty Ship midship deck house weighing 75 tons.
Liberty ship construction in World War 2. Midship deck houses weighing 75 tons hoists on board ship in ways at Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. Welders work on bow peak. Men work on after peak. Deck house rose aboard ship by large crane.
Construction of Liberty Ships during World War 2. Sign over entrance to the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, one of the U.S. shipyards where Liberty ships were being constructed. Change of shift in Kaiser Company shows huge numbers of workers leaving at end of their shift . Words on large building read 'Machine Shop'. Traffic passes on road in yard. Views from high vantage point of buildings and ships under construction. Crane and moving parts at dusk. Welders at work on several ships. Cranes against evening sky.
Republican New York Congressman Hamilton Fish III rehearsing a public statement on the steps of the Capitol in Washington DC. In his statement, Congressman Fish, known as Hamilton Fish Jr. in the Congress, objects to President Roosevelt's pact in which Britain will lease navy bases to the United States in return for 50 destroyers. He repeats his statement several times for the camera and microphone, rewording the statement somewhat each time.
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