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Dignitaries attend an official meeting at a government building in Europe.
An official building in Europe. Dignitaries arrive in cars and enter the building. Officials from various countries seated inside the building. Flags of various nations on poles. A dignitary speaks into a microphone.
U.S. servicemen look at statues of English literary figures, and other statues, in Great Britain.
Suggestions being given to U.S. servicemen to be assigned to posts in Great Britain. U.S. Officer walking with a woman in a park. U.S. Airmen visit shrine with statues of British literary figures, including those of John Milton, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare. View of British Houses of Parliament. Big Ben clock tower at Parliament striking. View of a ceremony occurring at the Standing Lincoln statue of Abraham Lincoln, at Parliament Square, Canning Green, in London, England. Unveiling of Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Statue at Grosvenor Square in London England on April 12, 1948.
Morrison and Knudsen construction company building dams in Afghanistan
Opening scene shows view from vehicle traveling from the Pakistan border over the Spinbaldak-Kandahar highway. View from above of a yellow truck on that road and arriving at the Morrison and Knudsen (MK) construction company headquarters near Kandahar. Views of the buildings to house and otherwise provide for MK employees. View of several camels walking away from the camera in a desert area. An MK crane lifts a drag line bucket in process of laying out a canal. An old man and a young boy watch the process. View of the MK-built dam across the Helmand River that will supply canals with water for irrigation. The King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, arrives with aides to inspect the project. (Narrator notes the King was present at the gate-opening of the dam in 1949.) An MK engineer converses with the King. View of water flowing for the first time into a new canal. (The water approaches a man walking in the dry canal.) Engineers converse while standing above a canal construction site. Below, teams of Afghan workers work on the canal sides. An Afghan surveyor, using a transit, to lay out the center line for a canal, waves his arms to an assistant in the distance. Closeup of man driving a stake and another holding the line that will mark the center line. Earth moving equipment being used to prepare the canal bed. Closeup of machine wheels turning. Glimpse of freshly-dug long canal
Traffic on the Whitehurst Freeway and construction of the District of Columbia Courthouse in Washington DC.
Monuments in Washington DC. A DC-6 airliner and an Eastern Airlines Lockheed Constellation airliner land at the the Washington National airport. Passengers deplane. Aerial view of the Memorial bridge. Traffic moves on the Whitehurst Freeway. Construction of the District of Columbia Courthouse. Aerial view of the Pentagon building. View of Senate Office building. A car leaving the parking garage at the Hecht Company building. Temporary WWII era buildings on the mall in Washington, D.C. Children from the school safety patrol band of Fairview NJ play. Kids from Morgantown, West Virginia safety patrol marching.
Construction of District of Columbia schools. Suburban homes and Mount Vernon near Washington DC.
Construction of District of Columbia schools. Suburban homes in Washington, D.C. Mount Vernon in Virginia.
Folger Library, Library of Congress Annex buildings, Rock Creek Park and Hains Point in Washington DC.
View of the Folger Library on Capitol Hill and Library of Congress Annex buildings (101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA). Cars ford Rock Creek in Rock Creek Park. Picnics in Rock Creek Park. Children on stream bank and on swings at Rock Creek Park Picnic tables at Hains Point. Golf course at Hains Point. Cars parked in parking Hains Point lots. Men fish from the bank of the Potomac River.
