Training of a chimpanzee during NASA Project Mercury preparations at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, United States. Animal test is conducted as chimpanzee rides a rocket sled on a track. Men walk along the side of the track. Buildings in the background. Technicians check the chimp (not seen) after the rocket sled test.
A football match between Villanova team and the army at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York. A large crowd seated in the stadium. The match in progress. The crowd cheers and applauds. Villanova team wins the match 21-7.
Members of medical emergency defense units gather in a building in New York, United States. Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri introduces United States Secretary of Defense George Marshall to administer the loyalty oath to the Medical Emergency Division of the Defense Volunteers. The members seated in chairs. Secretary of Defense Marshall addresses the members. He swears in the members that they will work for the defense of the country.
A street in Coney Island, New York City. People in the streets in the United States. A man rides a bicycle along a street. A banner suspended across the road reads: 'Lunch Room'. People on cycles, horse drawn surrey, and other modes of transport on the street. Many pedestrians stroll along the sidewalk, past large restaurant building.
View of nighttime fireworks during Third Liberty Bond Drive in World War 1. Two persons paste posters on buildings. Posters reads 'The Hun-his Mark', 'Blot it Out' with 'Liberty Bonds'. Another poster reads 'Lend-the way they fight, Buy Liberty Bonds to your Utmost'. Nurses in white uniforms parade, carrying American flags, in lower Manhattan, New York City. A military officer speaks to crowd from the front of the Subtreasury Building on Wall Street. An Army military band seated on the steps, plays for an assembled crowd. Former President, Theodore Roosevelt is seen waving his hat from a balcony overlooking the scene. Scene shifts to Washington, DC, where Hollywood movie star, Douglas Fairbanks, stands above the crowd, encouraging them to buy Liberty Bonds. His wife, Mary Pickford, wearing a large corsage of flowers, also stands above the crowd, appealing for them to buy bonds. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A wrestling bout in New York, United States. Contortionists wrestle in a ring as a referee supervises them. Jerry Monahan and Sol Slagel wrestle in the ring. They wrap each other in different shapes.
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