59th meeting of UN Security Council at Flushing Meadows, New York. Agenda of the meeting is the Termination of Anglo-Iranian Oil Companies Concession. Council President J.C.Muniz of Brazil, gavels the meeting to order. Representative of UK Gladwyn Jebb addresses the Council. Representatives from various countries make statements regarding the issue.
Union workers gathered in Flint Michigan, 1937, with a sign reading: "We've just begun to fight!" View of an Army truck, with a uniformed National Guardsman atop, manning a Browning M1917 machine gun mounted on a tripod. It drives past the Fisher Body factory, where striking workers, who have occupied the plant are seen looking out the windows. View from factory of National Guardsmen setting up machine guns outside. View from behind two Guardsmen, in battle gear, directing a machine gun from a high point along the factory roadway. Closeup of a machine gun crew setting up. Camera view looking directly into muzzle of the machine gun. Women and children watching the troops. Crowd of supporters waving at the strikers. Several women pass a basket of food to the strikers through a window. Strikers receiving cigarettes and one talking with his wife through a window. A striker lowers his child back down to his wife, after a visit with Daddy. Union workers marching along street, carry a banner of the new local 236 of the UAW (CIO) established on March 3, 1937, for workers at the L. A. Young Spring and Wire Corporation. Former sit-in strikers at the Fisher Body plant are seen outside,with family and friends, celebrating a contract after the 44-day ordeal. A crowd with banner reading: "GM Today, Ford Tomorrow." Several views of union workers from different industries, marching. In one, workers carry a coffin labeled "The Open Shop." Workers walking and waving in front of Chrysler's Desoto plant on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. More views of C.I.O. union workers in gatherings.
Damage caused by 1937 flood in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. A heavy loss of property due to a flood. Supplies being unloaded from trucks for the people. People being rescued from the areas affected by flood. Men aboard boats moving through buildings on the edge of the Ohio River that are submerged in water. Men moving a wooden casket. Destroyed houses and buildings in the areas. Flooded streets. A weather vane blowing briskly in wind. Narrator details how the weather bureau forecasts the weather and offers the information to help prevent losses from such disasters. Automatic typing machine records weather instrument readings. View of newspapers being printed at a printing press. A radio tower. People gather near injured flood victims. People lined up on the street to get supplies. Scenes of floodwaters below Memphis where flooding was effectively contained. Water rushing under the then new Bonnet Carre spillway of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Man opens a book published in Lisbon in 1605, now in the Library of Congress, written by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, reporting on the exploration team of De Soto on leaf 300 of the book. De Soto's group, in 1543, reported on the flood they saw below current day Memphis, extending over 20 leagues of land, covering the tops of trees, but not overrunning the homes of the Native Americans who build shelter atop high poles. A view of submerged homes in the 1937 flood are shown as the narrator laments that more modern people did worse than the Native American Indians.
Hitchcock scores seven goals in Meadow Brook Polo. He leads his Sands Point team to 14-10 victory over Greentree Four. Polo player Tommy Hitchcock talks with his buddy nearby tents. Match is played between teams. Hitchcock scores a goal in end.
Forest Conservation Work in the United States. Man looks through binoculars. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps providing work during great depression) men work in field. Tractor on the field. Two workers atop a tower. Dead trees being cleared from the forest. Workers fell dead trees and cut wood. Civilian Conservation Corps destroy tent caterpillars by burning their tent nests, and fight grasshoppers and pests that destroy meadows by spreading poison bran by the handful.
Various scenes of Cape Cod during sunset. Aerial view of Cape Cod and Provincetown showing its distinctive hook-shape. Hermit crab sleeping on sand. A crab moves on the sand. Bird perches in tree. Fish swim in clear stream. A bee approaches flower. Flowers in Cape Cod. A bee pollinates a white flower. View of a meadow full of flowers. A wall design with an eagle and stars. A horseshoe hanging on wooden beam. A dried flowers in vase at window. A ship sails off the coast of Cape Cod. Seagulls fly above Cape Cod. Distant view of Provincetown across water. The Longpoint Beach lighthouse in Provincetown. Various scenes showing the dunes of Cape Cod near Provincetown.
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