U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers a speech in Washington D.C., United States. The President, while addressing a conference, speaks about the food and drug laws of the country, and references issues with the drug Thalidomide. He informs about the decision to increase the staffing at the food and drug administration (FDA). He also talks about a bill that has been introduced in the Congress to allow rapid removal of drugs from the market that prove hazardous to public health and should potentially be illegal.
Improvement in housing facilities in post war era in United States. A planned housing community in the United States with various facilities like children's parks, baseball fields, a Liggett's drug store, a movie theater and a laundromat laundry facility. The theater marquee advertises Allan Ladd and Loretta Young, "And Now Tomorrow", and "Our hearts were young and gay" with Gail Russell and Diana Lynn. Woman loading clothes into an early model laundromat washing machine. Children play about in the area around the houses and run down from a pedestrian bridge that crosses a road. Ice cream man pushes an ice cream cart with an Eskimo Pie advertisement on the cart. The man rings a bell as children run to the ice cream cart. A woman inside a well ventilated and well lit up house. Men and a woman conduct research about improving housing facilities in United States.
U.S. Military Police car parked in front of United States Army Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse along Berlin Wall in West Berlin, Germany. A van from AFN ( American Forces Network) Berlin pulls up at the checkpoint. Army reporter Specialist Ted Shrady comes out to broadcast from Checkpoint Charlie. He stands on street and speaks over microphone about the weather conditions in Berlin.
The honorable Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy, arrives at port to inspect recently procured high speed PT Patrol boats in Quantico Virginia, United States. The boats have 30mm and 40mm guns. He examines a gun on the ship and enters inside through a hatch. The boat leaves the port. Turret of gun on boat. Officers aboard the ship take a ride on patrol boat with their guest. Views of the boat cruising at high speed.
An air pickup rescue in China. A R-6 helicopter evacuates wounded soldiers. A L-20 Beaver picks up soldiers from the ground using a technique at a speed of 130 mph. A soldier being strapped before the airlift. The aircraft lifts him up with great speed. A United States aircraft parked. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers insert charges into rockets and then load them into a multi-barrel rocket launcher mounted on a 37mm gun carriage, set up on the shore at Viareggio, Italy in World War 2. They load the 4.5 mm rockets into the firing tubes. Next the rockets are seen being fired by a soldier from a remote position. (Ordnance and Artillery Sections of the U.S. 5th Army developed this rocket launcher.)
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