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George Edward Pendray launches The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fueled rocket from Staten Island in New York, United States.
The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )
American economy strengthens after the Great Depression; also growth and prosperity and civil rights reform in 1950s and 1960s.
Chronicles recovery in America after the Great Depression in the United States, from roughly 1933-1967, but with emphasis on the earlier years of that period. Pre-war work programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) help with employment. Farmers work in their fields with tractors. Officials in an office discuss and prepare graphs. Workers drill and work at a construction site. The 1933 Homeowners Loan Corporation sparks new home building. View of new homes being built and new suburban neighborhoods. Brief scene of bombing at Pearl Harbor. American warships launching from shipyards during World War II. Women war production workers work in factories in the United States. Post-war Marshall Plan aid being sent to European countries. Crates of supplies marked for European countries. Industrial output booming again, and scenes of industrial factories and plants with smoke pouring from chimneys and pollution from stacks. Large pool typists room filled with female typists and clerical workers busy at work in government agency. Close up views of hands of women operating typewriters. Reforms for housing projects, African American Civil Rights and measures taken to stabilize unemployment, with scenes of successive Presidents signing reform bills, including Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. A ship departs from a harbor with goods. A convoy of vehicles on a road. Various Federal buildings in Washington DC. The White House building. An aerial view of an American town and of a factory with pollution smoke emitting from stacks. Letters being delivered to elderly women. People enter a medical clinic and wait in the clinic waiting room. Racially integrated classroom of older high school students or university students, with white and African American students, and both young men and women. A young white woman worker and a young African American working in a machine shop or possibly an academic shop class. A white and a African American man share a sandwich and views of white and black people together in integrated classrooms and factories as segregation begins to wane. Elementary school children in a classroom drawing pictures.
United States President Harry Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri
United States President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speakers recognize College President Franc L. McCluer and Missouri state Governor Phil M. Donnelly. President Truman praises Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill addresses the assembled intellects and dignitaries at the meeting in his "Sinews of Peace" address. Truman says Churchill "Is a great Englishman. But he's half American." During this famous speech which became known as the "Iron Curtain speech," Churchill thanks the college for giving him an honorary degree. He describes the times as "anxious and baffling." He says the U.S. "stands at the pinnacle of world power" and that it has an "awe-inspiring accountability to the future." With a "sense of dutydom, and anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement... Opportunities here now, clear and shining for both our countries."
People get employment, development of canals, roads and airports under the WPA projects in Missouri, United States.
WPA Development works in Missouri, United States during the Great Depression. Smoke stacks of a factory under halt. Depressed and discouraged men in public places of Missouri. Under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects, people work in agricultural farms and in factories. People lined outside a shop to purchase milk and eatables. Girls play in a park. A happy family. Streets paved in St. Louis and county roads surfaced. Gravel quarried by labors. The Joplin airport graded and surfaced by horse drawn rollers.
Underground water survey for farmers and repair of sewers by Works Progress Administration Projects in Missouri, United States.
Development works under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in Missouri, United States. A Missouri farmer uses an ancient divining rod to search for underground water. Geological survey of underground water by experts, under WPA project during the Great Depression. Survey machines and experts work in a field to test the availability of underground water in the field. equipment drill tube wells. Experts in a laboratory test the minerals and salts in available water. Public health improvement works in St Louis. Construction and repairs of sewers by workers. New built homes in the area.
United States President Harry S Truman with his wife and daughter at his residence in Independence, Missouri.
United States President Harry S. Truman seated with his wife, Bess Wallace, and daughter Mary Margaret in Independence, Missouri, after his successful election as President, in 1948. The Trumans read congratulatory telegrams and letters lying on a table in front of them. President Truman speaks to his wife and daughter. Truman with his family outside his house in Independence, Missouri. They look at flowers in the garden. Mary Margaret picks off a flower from a bush. Harry Truman looks on and smiles. Margaret gives a flower to her mother. Mrs. Truman admires flower from her daughter. Harry Truman wraps his arms around his wife and daughter, speaking with them.
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