Instructor demonstrates functioning of Sniper Rifle at Fort Benning in Georgia. He aims the rifle at target. Instructor removes back pack and points at a chart next to him. Chart reads 'Infrared Set Number 120,000 Volts. He explains about the sniper scope which is mounted on a standard carbine. Instructor puts on the back pack, picks up the carbine and aims towards target.
A land cruiser, giant truck treads lightly over the ground in California. U.S. army officers watch the rolligon as it moves over the ground on its enormous low-pressure tires. The rolligon climbs the side of a building. In an impressive stunt, it runs over the inventor, William Albee, without injuring him.
Trucking by rail in Illinois. Trucks with a big semi-trailer pass through an American highway. Inco Beverage Co. semi-trailer truck on the road. Rails beside a highway in Illinois. A General Motors (GM) flatcar moving in track. Newly devised flatcars and loading methods are shown. A trailer kingpin is lowered into a slot extension. It is hooked over a towing plate. A man locks the trailer kingpin into place. The plate is screwed in position. Then the trailers are transported.
20,000 guests gather at a party to celebrate President Dwight D Eisenhower's birthday in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Guests enter a tent with signs "The GREATEST TENT on ... to attend the GREATEST BUFFET ... For the GREATEST GUY". President Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, arrive at the party in a traditional Pennsylvanian Dutch buggy drawn by a dapple gray mare. Crowd greets him. He arrives with Mrs Eisenhower and cuts a 25 foot cake.
A small biplane parked on the ground in California. John Pontius, the pilot and the manufacturer of the plane pulls the plane. He sits in the cockpit. The plane takes off.
America's new jet interceptor 'Scorpion' parked on the ground in California, United States. Men stand near the jet. The jet in flight. High altitude view of the plane in flight.
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