Audience and crowd at National Spelling Championship. Young boys and girls in spelling bee spell out words given by a man at a microphone. Sandra Gloss of St Louis, Missouri becomes the new champion after Jean Copeland of Phoenix, Arizona misspells a word, and Ms. Gloss spells her final word correctly.
Big guns manufacture for new fighter aircraft at Washington Navy Yard. Aircraft overhead. U.S. Navy officer points on a map. Captain and crew on ship's deck. Warship underway at sea. Explosions in water.
Senator Key Pittman and Representative Ralph Brewster argue the Half-billion-dollar Naval appropriations bill.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy at his desk. Aero Commander 680 plane wreckage after crash near Southampton, Massachusetts. Policemen and police cars at the crash site, where Senator Kennedy had been pulled from the wreckage. Sign at entrance of hospital reads 'The Cooley Dickinson Hospital - Entrance'. Cars parked outside the hospital. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and others at the hospital. Robert Kennedy at a mike in a press conference. Cameramen record the event.
Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.
Men and women look up in sky while they walk. A man says 'We are your friends, please contact us'. Planets and stars in space. A comet. Interviews with people share their experiences with UFOs. A woman shares her experience while she was driving somewhere in Northwest Chicago. Street sign of 'Harmony Lane'. On seeing a flying object in sky, she gets out of the car and goes by her house. She enters the house and looks out of the window. She calls her husband and points out of window. Woman makes a sketch of flying object she saw. Shows children play with a UFO toy. Buildings in Chicago. Newspaper column reads line 'Airship Is Sighted'. UFO and patterns of light in the sky. A tourist plane takes off. Film recorded from plane's window shows a moving light in sky. UFO news in newspaper. Police officers patrol streets in Chicago at night. They see an object in sky but lose its sight. President of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, confirms his belief that 'UFOs are real.' Sign of NICAP - UFOs outside planetarium. Shows an officer and young scientist speak on UFOs. USAF Major Quintanilla speaks about UFOs.
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