U.S. President Harry S. Truman delivers a speech in the United States. President Truman speaks about a 20 billion dollar cut in the annual salary in the private industry. This would lead to a decrease in the salaries of workers and further lead to deflation. President Truman warns that such a situation would lead to unemployment.
Industrial production gets underway in the United States after the end of World War II. Men at work in an automobile plant. Men work on machines. Workers assemble cars. Tires being manufactured at a plant. Men and women work on refrigerators, radios and stoves in factories. A cordless iron being used to iron clothes. Refrigerators, cars, stoves and other gadgets on display in a store.
War bonds being sold in the United States during World War II. U.S. President Harry S. Truman opens a bond drive as he buys a war bond from Secretary of Treasury Fred M. Vinson. U.S. Army General Jonathan Wainwright with Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania during a ceremony to promote the sale of war bonds in Philadelphia. Wainwright's family at the ceremony. A bond rally at former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. In a drive organized by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry, Hollywood stars sell war bonds. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt seated in a chair. Hollywood celebrities including Merle Oberon receives applications to register for the Roosevelt bond.
The 27th annual meeting of the American Legion in Chicago, Illinois after the end of World War II. Women in uniforms and children eating chicken legs during the event. A war veteran speaks into a microphone. A sailor feeds chicken to an infant. Another war veteran from Georgia. Photographers take pictures of delegates during the annual meeting. A navy officer being presented a memento.
Vannevar Bush demonstrates his differential analyzer, a calculating machine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge Massachusetts, United States. Views of the differential analyzer, which contains both vacuum tubes and mechanical components. A woman at a data entry machine while inventor Vannevar Bush points to a diagram that shows the machine's processing. Views of a rotating mechanical portion of the machine. A document containing the calculations being printed out by the early computer or so called "robot brain."
Defending national champions Army beats Penn in Philadelphia with a score of 61 to 0. Halfback Glenn Davis, number 41, is seen scoring three touchdowns. Doc Blanchard, number 35, is seen scoring a long touchdown run.
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