Cars covered with snow on the streets and on the Highways. A sign reads, "Cleveland, Corporation Limit." Shopping stores are seen. A street car is seen. Several people stand in the snow covered streets. People are seen clearing snow from a car.
Construction of United States airship Akron. Motor compartments in the airship. Crew's bunk room under construction inside Akron. One out of the eight engines being installed by men. Men work on fuel tanks, condensers and propeller shaft A covered fin is lifted in a sling. Three vertical fins being installed. Men coat the outer cover with silver. Interiors of the control room with control panel. Thousands of steel bottles filled with helium piled up. Helium being taken away with hose for storage in underground tanks. Mobile mooring mast and mooring cone. Mooring cap on nose of Akron airship.
Maiden flight of United States airship Akron. USS Akron in flight and aerial view of a large crowd gathered at the launching ceremony of Akron. Wife of President Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Louise Henry Hoover arrives at the ceremony to launch the airship. She speaks on the microphone during the ceremony. She pulls a long line to release a trap door and pigeons from Akron.
Newsreel clip on the Chicago White Sox baseball team clinching their first American League pennant in 40 years in 1959. Clip opens with crowd filing into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which is decorated with a giant smiling Indian (the team's logo). Scenes from game: White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio doubles into the right-field corner to score Bubba Phillips, who slides to beat a throw to home. (Note photographers standing just a few feet away from the plate.) Billy Goodman doubles to score Aparicio. Two fans in white shirts, smoking cigars, intently watch the game. White Sox manager Al Lopez, in dugout, waves a fielder over to a different position. Indians load the bases in the ninth inning. White Sox call on Gerry Staley to get final outs. Staley throws one pitch and Vic Power of the Indians hits into a double play, ending the game. White Sox players celebrate in the clubhouse, pouring beer on each other's heads. Player in hat does a goofy dance.
Test flight of F-86 Sabre at the Wright Air Development Center located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. A book entitled 'Research and Development Information Report'. A sign reads 'Danger, Only Authorized Personnel Permitted on Firing Range'. A technician test guns. Guns while being tested. A wing of F-86 Sabre with tufts installed on it. A technicians climbs up a ladder, sits in a cockpit and points to the cameras installed under canopy of aircraft. The cameras will take pictures during tufts test while aircraft is in flight. Project engineer and test pilot in cockpit of an aircraft. A pilot in the cockpit. A pilot wears helmet. F-86 taxis and takes off. F-86 aircraft going into dive at 45,000 feet. Wing of F-86E with tufts installed on it. A research engineer looks at the film taken of tuft test.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut candidate Captain Donald K "Deke" Slayton, USAF, undergoes Equilibrium and Vibration test. Subject seated on a chair which rotates simultaneously on two axes. He maintains the chair on an even keel by means of a control stick with and without vibration, normally and blindfolded.
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