Men compete in boat race. Spectators watch the race from the bridge. Spectators watch the boat race from the bank. American woman plays piano. Little children look on. Possibly Central Park New York.
The new Twin City Motor Speedway. Dario Resta beside his Mercedes race car, number 24, posing with his racing team, after dropping out of the AAA-sponsored 500 mile race, at the 110 mile point, with a broken oil pump. (A cap from the back of the pump case had jolted off, causing a loss of oil.) Additional scenes from the race are seen. Start of the race. Cars racing on track.
Liberty bond rally for World War I. Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt rides in a car. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt talks to dignitaries. U.S. naval troops led by naval band march on street with banners. Advertisement in background reads 'Liberty Bond Country Buy Yours Now'. Banner reads 'Join Our Navy'. Poster on 'Veterans' Model T car reads 'The Navy Needs Men'. Men carrying U.S. flags march for new naval recruits. Boy Scouts march in the parade, some carrying flags and some carrying signs. Demonstration against Germany during World War 1. Banner reads 'The Devil Says He Will Resign If the Kaiser is Admitted'
Men work on a long line of military ships in construction at a ship building yard during World War 1. Captain and crew on a new ship with bunting as it emerges from production and readies for launch. Newly built ship at ship commissioning ceremony.
U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr speaks about the cost of the New Deal. He explains that although the national debt has increased from 21 billion USD to 27 billion USD, this has been offset somewhat by an increase in assets at the Treasury Department of almost 1.6 billion USD during the same time period.
Broad view of the valley in which the Phu Cat base is taking shape during construction. Many structures are already complete. Hills visible in distance. Areas of newly cleared earth visible. Carpenters seen on roof of a building being framed, in a row of wooden buildings. Closeup of U.S. Airmen (members of 819th Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers, AKA RED HORSE). They are installing corrugated asbestos cement roofing sheets on a new building. View of Airmen on ground handing roofing sheets up to installers. View of a man in fatigues and cap smoking a cigarette, as he watches the airmen work. (He wears no military insignia, and is possibly a civilian working with the construction consortium: RMK-BRJ (Raymond International & Morrison-Knudsen, Brown & Root & J.A. Jones Construction.) The Airmen of 819th pause for the camera, then reach out and install some more roofing panels.
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