Cars drive on American highways in the early 1930s. Closeup view of a sign indicating a speed limit of 40 miles per hour. Point of view shot from inside a moving car driving on a highway, as men workers on the other side of the road are seen hand-painting white stripes on the highway while cars pass by. Milestone indicates distances on roads to locations in Indiana and Ohio and Florida. Closeup view of a route number sign for Indiana route 31. Ford Model T cars driving on roads and streets and passing by. Instructions to drivers like curve ahead (beneath a Florida route 4 sign). A Florida US 1 route sign with palm tree branches behind it. A grouping of road signs along US Route 20 in Ohio, with signs pointing to other nearby routes and cities in Ohio.
Cars racing backwards on a track. Drivers try to navigate backwards around stopped cars. People crowd the track at the end of the race.
A study of rats and diseases harbored by rats. Scientists and technicians in a laboratory comb rats for lice, mites and fleas. They mount and suspend the rats over a bowl and comb them. The insects collected in the bowl looked at through a microscope lens. Fleas, mites and lice as seen through a lens. A solution dropped on them and transferred to another bowl. Dead rats examined for lesions of plague. Technicians dissect the dead rats with a pair of scissors. A building with a sign that reads 'Fertilizer Company'.
A study of rats. Examples of rat proofing, a man measures the dimensions of a house. A diagram shows the right and wrong way of construction of an elevated building for rat proofing. A diagram of chain and curtain walling. Marks on a wall as a man measures it. Correct construction of food establishments. The construction of correct wooden floor. Wooden planks on the floor, a man hammers nails in the wooden planks on the floor. An elevated house prepared for rat proofing. Men remove wire gauze from the lower portions from all three sides. A diagram of the ventilations and doorways in the structure. A diagram shows the correct and incorrect way of construction, concrete garage, and walks. A man takes measurements of a concrete pathway.
Scene of steam locomotive starting to move. Engineer in the locomotive cab. Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential election campaign. A railroad train pulls up at a station in Kentucky. Governor of New York, Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a public meeting in Topeka, Kansas,about the new deal and its help for farmers. His train arrives in Seattle and a large crowd welcomes him at the rail road station. A train moves over a bridge and Roosevelt arrives in Springfield, Georgia to campaign for the Presidential elections. He receives a warm welcome in Georgia.
Renewed manufacturing activity throughout the nation recalls thousands of workers as the American industry forges onward and shows some signs of improvement during the great depression. Bloomington, Illinois: Workers manufacture oil heaters. They work on various machines and equipment. Middleton, Ohio: 2400 men at work in one of the big rolling mill companies. The workers arrive at the steel mill. Steel processing. Santa Monica, California: Men and women report for work at the Douglas Aircraft Plant. They work on a tight schedule for the new type Army torpedo and bombing planes. Men work on various parts of the aircraft. Chicago, Illinois: The Atlas Brewing Company, a huge brewery and bottling works where the production has been speeded to almost 30,000 bottles of beer an hour to meet a surge of demand following the passing of the Volstead Act allowing 3.2 beer (3.2% alchohol), near the end of prohibition in America. Beer Bottles move on conveyor belts. The bottles are filled, packed in crates and readied for transportation.
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