The Labor Industry Conference in the United States. United States President Harry S. Truman inaugurates the Labor-Industry Conference. Inside view of the conference hall. Various dignitaries and officials in the conference hall. President Truman speaks before the labor-industry members. The dignitaries include Philip Murray (Congress of Industrial Organization), John L. Lewis (United Mine Workers of America), William Green (American Federation of Labor), Eric Johnston (Chamber of Commerce) and Charles Wilson (General Motors). “On this conference have been based many high hopes of the American people. Their eyes are turned here in the expectation that you will furnish a broad and permanent foundation for industrial peace and progress. This is your opportunity to prove that you can come to understanding and agreement without political or government pressure. The whole world now needs the produce of our mils and factories. Everything stands ready and primed for a great future,” said President Truman.
USS Enterprise underway at sea in the United States. United States Navy AD Skyraider aircraft parked at the flight deck. A United States Navy A-4D Skyhawk aircraft comes in for landing. Men on a catwalk watch as the aircraft land in the background.
USS Enterprise underway at sea in the United States. Flight deck personnel on a catwalk handle levers for arresting gear. United States Navy AD Skyraider aircraft parked in the background. Men on a catwalk tend to arrest cables during the landing of aircraft. Men look across the flight deck at the landing of aircraft. United States Navy A-4D Skyhawk aircraft makes an arrested landing. The aircraft stops. A U.S. Navy F-8U Crusader aircraft makes an arrested landing. The A4D aircraft taxis over the deck after making the arrested landing. The F8U-1 aircraft makes arrested landing. The F8U taxis up the deck.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Basic aims of the Social Security Act include: unemployment compensation, old age insurance, aid to needy aged, aid to needy blind and aid to dependent children. American people walking on a crowded city street in the late 1930s. Pedestrians walk on busy sidewalks beside traffic on downtown city streets. A group of American boy and girl children assembled together, likely posing for a picture and looking happy. Montage of various scenes of men working on farms and in factories in the United States. Narrator notes, "A little money coming in when earnings stop helps maintain purchasing power, and so keeps the wheels of industry turning; pooling the risk for joint protection is the method of our democracy. It benefits the individual, the family, the community, and the nation. The goal is security for all." Men assembling chassis of a car on assembly line of an automotive plant. A young couple holding and walking with their two children, one of whom is holding a balloon. Closeup of a father holding his young, smiling son. View of the United States Capitol dome in Washington DC, then seal of the Social Security Board superimposed over the Capitol image.
Submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the United States. A cable ship at sea during the laying of the submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the telephone system of the United States. A few equipment on the ship. View of the submarine cable in the sea from the cable ship. Men at work on the cable ship. The cable being pulled by several men at a Cuban port. U.S. President Warren G. Harding, seated with other officials, during the commemoration of the completion of the cable to Cuba on April 11, 1921 in the United States. Harding and the officials talk on telephones using the newly completed cable line to Cuba.
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh (Mosaddeq) in the United States. Mohammad Mosaddegh places a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, United States. He talks to officials. He comes out of a building and waves to people. Mohammad Mosaddegh speaks to an American official. He boards a KLM aircraft upon leaving the United States. People wave to Mohammad Mosaddegh. The aircraft in flight.
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