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Super outbreak of tornadoes and related emergency coordination in United States.
Scenes of Tornadoes in the U.S. during a Super Outbreak in early April 1974, when a series of tornadoes struck numerous states including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York; and the Canadian province of Ontario. A man receives a call at a radio station during tornado in United States. He goes to door and see outside. He comes back and gives warning on radio. Message received at local emergency center. A man announces warning. A helicopter flies and relays report of tornado sightings from flying helicopter. A man talks on phone giving sighting reports. A meter indicates wind speed. View of tornado bearing down on Louisville Kentucky downtown buildings after having hit state fairgrounds. A cameraman takes video. A man talks at National Warning System. A man points location of tornado on a map. Various departments having meetings. Police jeep on road. Scenes of Tornado. People carry dead ones on stretcher and in hands.
Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees get ready for the 1951 baseball season
Newsreel clip previewing Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees at spring training prior to 1951 baseball season. The defending National League champion Phillies trained that year in Clearwater Florida. Players pose under sign that reads "Home of the Fightin' Phlilies." Shot of team owner Robert Carpenter and manager Eddie Sawyer. Shots of pitchers Robin Roberts, Jim Konstanty and Bubba Church warming up. Hitters seen in batting cage include Willie Jones, Eddie Waitkus and Andy Seminick. Clip shifts to Yankees' spring training in Phoenix, Arizona, where team holds up numbers and letters reading "1950 Champs" to mark their victory over the Phillies in the World Series. Manager Casey Stengel puts on cowboy hat and strikes a funny pose for the camera. Yankee players also don the hats, including 1950 American League MVP Phil Rizzuto and soon-to-be 1951 MVP Yogi Berra. Stengel talks with group of six Yankee rookies, including future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle at far right. Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio points bat at camera, smiles by batting cage.
Early attempts to fly various heavier than air contraptions. Later use of rockets for propulsion; GE jet engines circa 1951.
Early history of flight with various ornithopters and flying contraptions. A bicycle-powered 8-winged airplane collapses in front of a hangar during takeoff attempt. Man wearing a set of wings, and a tail, tries to fly by running and also by jumping off a large rock. The so-called Pitt Sky Car in action. A car equipped with an umbrella-like rotor intended for vertical takeoff. It simply jumps up and down. A man riding a bicycle being propelled in part by a pack of rockets burning behind his seat. It gets too hot and he abandons the bicycle just before the rocket pack explodes. Animated discussion of Newton's 3rd law of motion and its relevance to the jet airplane engine. Diagrams and illustrations. A Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star aircraft taking off, and in flight, with its speed brake extended. View of General Electric jet engine, circa 1951, that delivers over 5800 pounds of thrust. These engines being produced in the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts and the new (1951) GE plant at Lockland Ohio.
Technological advances in the United States after World War 2 shared with other NATO member countries
U.S. Marines dropped off from U.S. marine helicopters at a landing zone during maneuvers. and then running on a field. Representatives of United Nations permanent member countries in a weekly conference session meeting of the permanent council. Exterior views of U.S. Capitol building with American flag flying. U.S. Congress in session in Capitol building. Technological advances in U.S. U.S. President Eisenhower on a visit passes beneath a sign "Atoms for Peace" and observes various displays dealing with atomic power and nuclear power. An early nuclear power plant in Idaho, and view of an electical power plant control room that uses power from the nuclear plant. Doctor in a hospital checks a patient using a atomic scanner. American workers work in Oil fields in the United States -- view of many oil rigs in one area and two oil workers working on an oil rig. Tractors and modern large harvesting devices being used in farms. Miners sit in mining rail carts and then enter a mine on the rail cart. Sign on wall at coal mine entrance reads, "Inland Steel Company." And below it another sign, "Price Mine Number 1. 1950." (deep mining operation in Price, Kentucky). Mechanical mining cutter used in mine is seen turning out many large chunks of coal. Rail carts transport raw ore out from the Price, Kentucky coal mine.
KFC founder Colonel Sanders talks about how he got his first franchise in the United States.
The contribution of franchise system in the United States. Kentucky, the home place of Colonel Sanders and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food restaurants. Colonel Sanders put the idea of franchising forward and made it successful. He talks about how he started the franchise, he also speaks about how they got their first restaurant. Children eat chicken at KFC. Children on a merry go round carousel. He traveled by cars to many of the cities to sell his business and take a franchise. Brief views of downtowns in the following cities with 1940s era automobiles on roads: Pampa, Kerrville, Wichita Falls, and San Angelo. The colonel demonstrates his recipe of cooking chicken. He brings it to 90 degrees fahrenheit before cooking it. He batters it and places it in a pressure cooker to cook. View of the finished cooked chicken. The recipe is same in all the centers. Colonel Sanders with his wife walking next to a home.
Nellie Tayloe Ross and officials oversee first gold shipment to Fort Knox from United States Mint in Philadelphia
Nellie Tayloe Ross, the 28th Director of the Mint, and Employees at the United States Mint, Department of Treasury oversee the first shipment of government gold from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia to the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Clip shows casting and weighing of government gold, at the U.S. Mint facility in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Nellie Tayloe Ross seen speaking and seated at a desk with other officials nearby. Mint officials check the quality and dimensions of a cast gold bar to be transported to Fort Knox in Kentucky. Gold molded into bars by ram machines. Nellie Tayloe Ross signs papers. Molding machines and employees at work. Molten gold in a kiln. Man casts it into gold bars. Officials and armed guards keep an eye on the process. Gold bars are placed on one side of a large scale and weighed. Exterior view of the U.S. Mint department building in Philadelphia. View is of the third U.S. Mint building in Philadelphia, North facade, facing Spring Garden Street (building later owned by the Community College of Philadelphia, as of 1973). Late 1930's automobiles seen passing by the U.S. Mint on Spring Garden Street.
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