"Springwood," the family home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Hyde Park, New York. Views of the mansion during FDR's presidency. An elegant car drives up to the front door. A driver gets out and lets out a man who ascends the steps the house. The car drives away. Views of the house from several angles, with an American flag flying out front.
Mafia crime figures leave New York City courthouse in hancuffs and are escorted to waiting U.S. Marshal van. Photographers take photographs.
Warren Austin, United States representative to the United Nations, addresses the United Nations Palestine Commission at UN Headquarters in New York. Austin speaks about the situation in Palestine and the U.S. desire for peace and an end to violence.
A representative of Albert Einstein College of Medicine speaks at a press conference. President of Yeshiva University speaks and expects the students of the new Medical College that they will draw more inspiration from the name of Albert Einstein, the most renowned scientist of the world. Model of Albert Einstein College of Medicine is shown. Close views of the college.
A film shows how voice travels over phones, and dramatizes the transmission of a telephone call from San Francisco to Plymouth, England. Functions of telephone system components, including generators, towers, transformers, technicians at circuits, wire lines and the aerial systems at Rocky Point in New York, Cupar in Scotland and Houlton in Maine. Shows switchboard activity at the London Trunk Exchange. Workers, mostly women telephone switchboard workers, answering and routing calls in telephone exchange.
Los Alamos Atomic Energy Commission Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico and mountains in the background. Scientists work with diagrams of nuclear reactors. Different equipment and nuclear rocket designs. Prototype of Nuclear reactor is made. Technicians work with KIWI experimental reactors. Towers and buildings in desert. KIWI reactor is checked in nuclear assembly. Reactor is taken to the testing area on a special rail car. Man works at a remote station to control the car. Liquid hydrogen is pumped into the reactor on rail car from near by storage tanks. Reactor tested on test stand shows flaming torch. Reactor transported for disassembly and inspection on car by remote control. Men use remote control manipulators for inspection. Exhaust gas from other reactor on test stand. Men work on diagrams. Narrator discusses next step as the NERVA program (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications), a combined government and private industry (Aerojet and Westinghouse) effort headed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO). Animated nuclear thermal rocket shown with NERVA technology ( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application), given the letter designation NRX.
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