Swedish track star Gunder Hagg watches a professional baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. He takes pictures of the game with a camera. A huge crowd of spectators gathered to watch the game. Gunder Hagg with young American boys viewing the Minute Man sculpture in Concord. The track athlete sets new record for running mile at Harvard University stadium. Spectators cheer him.
Teachers in Chicago protest pay injustice during the Great Depression, as they had not been paid for 11 months. 5,000 instructors joined by students and parents in a march and protest as they also complained about cuts in school services. Scenes from other labor strikes across United States in 1934 including shipyard and auto industry strikes. Striking workers marching. President Roosevelt intervenes in an automobile strike. President Roosevelt on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. Men in a factory or manufacturing facility punching timecards in time clocks. New automobile cars seen in production and rolling off assembly lines. Working men eat lunch beside their posts in an assembly line factory, during a break.
President Kennedy denounces the big steel companies for raising their steel prices $6 a ton at a press conference. President Kennedy gives his opinion on its effect on the economy. Large number of reporters seated in the news conference. Chairman of the Board of US, Steel Roger Blough gives reasons for the increase in steel prices at a press conference. He says they need the raise for plant improvement.
A U.S. Navy C-type or C-class blimp number C-7 takes off. A manned kite balloon is tested, floating above a U.S. Navy ship at sea. Sailors aboard a ship. An observation balloon towed by the stern of a battleship. U.S. Navy rigid airship USS Los Angeles leaves a large hangar. A Navy mechanic oils part of the airship's mechanisms during flight. USS Shenandoah airship in flight. USS Shenandoah airship (ZR-1) moored to mooring tower on the stern of the USS Patoka replenishment oiler ship. USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) airship leaves Friedrichshafen, Germany, where it was built as part of World War 1 war reparations, and is seen bound for New York as German crowd on the ground waves. Views from the USS Los Angeles in flight. U.S. President Coolidge and first lady Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge stand by USS Los Angeles upon its arrival in the United States.
Electric power lines and insulators. A bridge across a river in United States. Cars pass on it in wintertime, with snow at edge of road on a cold morning. High voltage long distance electric transmission lines and towers. Statue of Liberty from behind, with helicopter flying past it. Series of very close-up views of appliances and conveniences that use electricity: Chicken roasting on electric powered rotisserie. Clock hands moving on electric powered clock. Person turns on electric desk lamp. Electric powered beaters spinning. Electric powered industrial machining operation. A couple dancing to music powered by electricity. Several kinds of electric transmission lines. Electricity in the 1960s office environment: Hand dialing a rotary dial telephone; adding machine; close-up views of typewriter in operation; punch card sorter for punch cards of early computer; early computer tape drive spinning; warning lights. Closeup views of fingers pressing keys and dialing. Night view of Times Square on Manhattan Island, New York City with many illuminated commercial signs and neon signs.
Atomic energy production. A nuclear power plant. Men seated around a table in a conference room. The men view a diagram of a reactor in a presentation. The men study the design of nuclear plant construction. Engineers in drafting room work on blue prints for a nuclear power plant. Scene of Washington DC, with traffic on roads, Washington Monument in background, and then views of landmark federal buildings near Constitution Avenue. Man enters offices of Atomic Energy Commission and obtains document entitled "In the Matter of Application for Construction Permit, Docket No. 50-861," which he studies. Men in conference room of 'Advisory Committee on Reactor safeguards'. Papers regarding the construction of plant. Views of town where prospective nuclear plant will be located. In courthouse, a public hearing is conducted, by an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, regarding the proposed new plant. After considering testimony from concerned parties, the board approves the permit and members sign.
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