Ford Railroad train moving slowly in the railroad yard of Ford River Rouge Plant Motor Plant in Dearborn, Michigan in 1923. Transition to 1925 and view of parking lots at the plant. Heavy automobile and bus traffic outside the plant. Workers leave plant by overpass and come downstairs. Workers walk in plant yard.
Fishermen's Memorial Monument in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. Ships anchored at the coast. Buildings along the coast line. Inscription on a stone reads 'They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships', 1623 –1923. Atop the monument is a sculpture of a Gloucester fisherman in foul weather gear with his hands on the wheel.
Former President of the U.S. National Aeronautical Association Fredrick Patterson presents a medal in 1923 to Orville Wright in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the first flight. Patterson presents a medal to Orville Wright in the United States. View of the medal.
General of Army, Douglas MacArthur, speaking on the steps of the Mississippi State Legislature, addresses a joint assembly of the Mississippi State Legislature, and citizens, in Jackson, Mississippi. MacArthur emphasizes that charity begins at home. He questions the merits of America spending billions to fight communism abroad. Further, he questions the commitment of European nations to fight against communism. He notes that the U.S.A. had spiritual leadership of the world, backed by the greatest military power in history, at the end of World War 2. But he claims the U.S. dissipated that power, by betraying Nationalist China; and permitting the Soviet Union to expand into Eastern European countries; while American disarmed and demobilized.
Ohio and Scotia rivers with water flooding the streets, railway tracks across Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Cars submerged in water move through the streets. Floods partly submerge houses and buildings. Two boys sail on makeshift raft. Men carry their children as they cross flooded street. Pedestrians walk on elevated planks during the flood. People sail by boats to cross the city. Sign showing the directions to Columbus, Gallipolis, Marietta, and Ravenswood. The worst flood in many years claims five lives and renders many homeless.
Film opens showing large factory building with all its lights on at night. Smoke stacks at industrial plant emitting white smoke against dark sky. Sparks flying outdoors from a steel plant at night. Workers inside a fabricating plant drawing a ribbon of hot steel from a roller and dragging a newly made sheet of metal across the floor. Two men with shovels stoking a furnace. Men shaping parts on forging machines. A group of men using sledge hammers to drive down pipe supports under a large piece of sheet metal. Employees at work in a crowded machine shop. A sign reading: "500 workers needed NOW Training on the job." A display of job recruitment announcements in newspapers. A room full of idle manufacturing machinery (ostensibly due to labor shortages). Sign on iron fence outside a building, reads: "Essential WAR WORK Day or Night Men and Women." Some more similar signs.Animated chart of Labor Needs with Labor supply lagging behind, superimposed on a drawing of a defense plant. Map of the USA highlighting areas of industrial might where labor shortages exist. Camera zooms in on Dayton, Ohio on the map. Aerial views all over the city of Dayton, Ohio. View from a tall building overlooking a major Dayton commercial street. The Gem City Savings building, with clock tower on top, at the corner of Third and Main streets. On April 7, 1943, two hundred leading citizens of Dayton are seen attending a meeting at which Stanley C. Allyn, President of the National Cash Register Company, is speaking. He speaks about the danger of Dayton falling behind its war production goals because of manpower difficulties. View of the audience, which includes several military officers in uniform. Allyn speaks of the potential for war work being moved elsewhere because of this, and challenges Dayton's leaders to solve the problem without requiring action from Washington. Next, an emergency committee of community leaders is seen around a table. Camera pans over attendees, including labor leaders from AF of L and CIO; Government officials present, including Area Director and Deputy Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Chief of Program Requirements for the Region; leading industrialists and retailers are shown. Local officials seen include the Mayor of Dayton and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Commanding Army Air Forces Generals of Wright Field and Patterson field. In final scene, Stanley Allyn is seen at the head of the table, speaking to the group. He outlines three ways to obtain more war workers from the Dayton population during World War II.
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