Toledo Naval Armory, training center for naval services in Toledo Ohio. The Armory building constructed with salvage material and federal funds through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. 'OHIO' can be seen carved on the top center of the building. Marines and Navy reserve sailors lined up for inspection by senior officers. A naval officer provides gunnery instructions to Marines and Navy reservists.
Newly installed Badoglio II government leaders convene in Salerno, Italy. Cabinet Ministers Benedetto Croce, Palmitro Togliatti and Count Carlo Sforza, along with two others, converse in the lobby of the Salerno Municipio building (Via Roma, 84121 Salerno SA, Italy). Other dignitaries moving in background. One of them smokes a cigarette while conversing.
The Detroit Industry Mural by Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan. Views of the Detroit Industry mural sections and the walls and floor, showing paintings and sculptures.
Dearborn,Michigan. Workers affixing car frame to chassis at Ford River Rouge plant. Several workers assembling and welding. A worker wearing mask welds parts in and out of the car.
British troops aid Federation of Malaya civilians in building a town. Huts under construction. A native man digging with a hoe. Women carrying supplies and children in baskets. The village being completed. Views of workers in the fields, feeding livestock including chickens and pigs. Sign over a store reads, "Layang Resettlement Cooperative Trading Co." Interior of the store as the shop keeper issues food to a woman beside a set of scales. Another building labeled "Dispensary" and inside where a doctor examines a child's leg as the child is held by a native woman. Children being instructed in a classroom. A man standing on a porch addressing a crowd of gathered civilian men. All the men raise their hands in response to a question. Armed Malayan men patrolling a perimeter fence against rebels from the Malayan Communist Party.
The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. A modern highway replaces the historic Oregon Trail in the Mount Hood National Forest near Portland in Oregon. A modern overland traveler pays tribute to the memory of a pioneer woman. The man gets off his car, walks to the grave and pays his respects.
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