President John F Kennedy reveals Soviet Russian aircraft pullout at a news conference in United States soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis. President lifts the United States Naval blockade of Cuba after Nikita Khrushchev gives his pledge that Soviet bombers will be out of Cuba in 30 days. President Kennedy speaks over the microphone. Reporters take notes while photographers take pictures.
Milton Rackmil, President of Universal Pictures, honored by movie pioneers. He is awarded 'Pioneer of the year'. Milton Rackmil poses for a picture with his 88 year old father. Guests converse with each other during the ceremony. Picture of Milton R Rackmil and Jack Cohn. Milton R Rackmil speaks over microphone. Guests applaud.
A U.S. Military Air Transport Service C-121 (Lockheed Constellation) aircraft parks at Washington National Airport, in Washington, DC. President Habib Bourguiba of the Republic of Tunisia descends the steps of the airplane and is greeted by President John F Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy. An Honor Guard in white uniforms stands in formation.
Newsreel "Office wife turns cook in New City Fad." A business man working at a desk in an office in Chicago. A woman typing at a typewriter in the same office. The man looks at his watch and appears to signal to the woman a request to prepare a meal. The woman, who is also his wife, gets up and dons an apron in a kitchen area. She lays a table for breakfast or lunch at the same table where she had been typing earlier. The man and the woman eat the meal together. The man kisses the woman and gets up from the table to return to work. (Themes include role of women in 1930s America, and working women in the United States.)
The Texas oil rush. Thousands of people rush to Talco to make profits from the discovery of oil deposits. People enter the town in cars. A sign reads 'Talco - New Oil Capitol of Texas Welcomes You'. Men and young boys wait outside the Talco Lease and Royalty Co. An oil well in the village. Men work on an oil drill. Workers atop the oil rig. People arrive by plane. A crowd and parked cars outside the Lacey Building. A crowd at the oil well.
Woodchoppers pit their skills in Skytop, Pennsylvania. Woodchoppers on raised beams. They chop wood with axes. A large crowd of spectators at the contest. Men, women and children watch the event. Woodchoppers sit on thick wooden logs and chop them away. The chips strewn all over. Men in boots on the logs. Woodchoppers with axes seated on a log. A man smiles. A woodchopper saws wood with a buck-saw. People sit around and watch. A woman saws a log. She poses with her bucksaw.
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