Feature titled 'For Men Only' in the United States. Newspaper columnist Bert Bacharach standing in a garden beside a gas burner. Bert Bacharach offers a few tips for outdoor cooking, grilling, and barbecue. He says that when cooking on charcoal the bottom of the pan gets blackened. To remove this rub a wet cake of soap on to the bottom and wipe off with a tissue or a cloth. He says that when soup is heated rub a grease of any kind on the bottom and rim of the pot. He also says that instead of using one rag while washing the dishes use two rags to prevent the dishes from falling.
A documentary titled 'Sports' in Detroit in the United States. Spectators seated on stands around the swimming pool at the National Outdoor AAU Diving Championship in Detroit. View of the spectators seated in rows. Gaby Tobian, the defending champion, dives from the platform int the pool. Five other contestants dive into the pool from the platform. Gaby Tobian takes another dive, winning the championship. Gaby Tobian smiling.
A documentary titled 'Building for Service' in the United States. In 1878 there were fewer telephones in the United States as compared to later years. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, in his forecast to the Electric Telephone Company writes that telephone cables could be laid underground or suspended overhead connecting with wires to buildings of any kind. A man could speak to another man at a distant place by this means. A graph showing the growth of the Bell System in the number of telephones, from 2 million in 1876 to 16 million in 1926. Thousands of people have worked in streets and on mountains in laying telephone facility, to bring the inventor's forecast to reality. A graph showing physical property of the Bell System from year 1911 through 1925.
Telephone facility construction in the United States. A picture showing a man digging a hole for a telephone pole in 1894. A picture shows several men raising a telephone pole in 1895. Men using a tractor to pull telephone lines in the later years. A tractor with auger drilling holes for the telephone posts. A derrick (out of sight) placing a post in the hole. A man standing beside the post guiding it into the hole. In 19th Century, crews of men are seen manually digging trenches on the sides of the road in a city street for laying telephone lines. In contrast , a man operates a powered trenching machine along a street, while helpers watch, Houses in view along the side of the road.
Telephone line laying methods in the United States. Pictures of several men digging ditches and laying telephone lines. Men standing beside the ditch. A few men laying telephone lines using modern methods. Men at work and a tractor beside them. A man using an equipment to dig a man hole.
Submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the United States. A cable ship at sea during the laying of the submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the telephone system of the United States. A few equipment on the ship. View of the submarine cable in the sea from the cable ship. Men at work on the cable ship. The cable being pulled by several men at a Cuban port. U.S. President Warren G. Harding, seated with other officials, during the commemoration of the completion of the cable to Cuba on April 11, 1921 in the United States. Harding and the officials talk on telephones using the newly completed cable line to Cuba.
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