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U.S. President sends 6 U.S. B-17 bombers to express American good will to President-elect Roberto M. Ortiz, of Argentina
Six B-17 Flying Fortresses in flight from Washington,DC, United States to Buenos Aires, Argentina. One is seen above snow-capped mountain. The American goodwill squadron brings a message of peace from the U.S. President. They are feted by the Argentines. A parade with Argentine soldiers on motorbikes and the U.S. B-17s flying overhead. Honor guard of Argentine soldiers stand on the street, as U.S. Ambassador and American and Argentine dignitaries ride in an open carriage. Scene shifts to the return of the B-17s as they are greeted on Langley Air Field, Virginia.
American, Filipino and Mexican men, women and children work in farm fields, United States. Migrant farmers seeking work.
Clouds over barren and parched land during Great Depression. Expansive views of open western plains and distant mountains. Some cactus plants in undeveloped wide open areas in Arizona. A steam engine locomotive pulls a train in the distance. Hills, cattle graze. Elevated view of a man made Theodore Roosevelt Lake reservoir and the Theodore Roosevelt dam that created it, northeast of Phoenix Arizona. Farms, fields, trees and vegetation. Migrant farmers in overloaded cars and heavily loaded automobiles on a dirt road. A parked trailer. A loaded wagon attached to the car. Boxes of fruits and vegetables including lemons, sweet potatoes and oranges at very low prices. Children of migrant farmers playing together and milling about. Groups of migrant worker farmers looking for work and competing for work in Arizona with four crops a year due to warm conditions and water from dams. Cars with variety of western United States 1939 license plates. Filipino and Mexican immigrant farmers pick fruits and vegetables (lettuce) on a farm. Men work on an irrigated field. Narrator states that Filipino and Mexicans have the jobs because they are strong. They pick and load lettuce into trucks on a lettuce field. Men work at sheds at packing machines to pack the lettuce. Trucks loaded in the field. Mexican border on Rio Grande river valley: Men, women and children work in a field. Most are Mexican. They pick fruits and vegetables and load them into buckets and containers. A man supervises the workers. Women workers pick and sort produce on a field. A man with a loaded horse wagon. Men lift boxes of produce. Migrants work in a field.
United States Army Air Corps winter mission before WW2.
United States Army Air Corps Douglas XC-32 military transport plane in flight after take off from Langley Field before WWII. Major General Frank Andrews and staff including Major George C. Kenny, inspecting a map onboard the XC-32. A radio operator in the XC-32 sends a message via morse code and voice. Ground radio operators in Concord, New Hampshire as command is heard on loudspeaker telling pilots to "simulate an air attack on the New York metropolitan area." View of a loudspeaker. Ground crewmen walking across snow-covered field in Concord New Hampshire with a Douglas YO-31A parked in background. Snow is falling on the airfield as crewmen uncover engine of a Martin B-10 bomber parked in a row with other bombers. A crewman in winter uniform carries a machine gun across snow-covered field toward a parked B-10. A gunner in a B-10 as nose turret turns. Crewmen looking in open bomb bay doors in the snow. Two crewmen turning propeller on a B-10 by hand while it is snowing. Two ground crewmen crank B-10 engine by hand to prime it in cold conditions. Engines on a B-10 are started. The snow is blown off wings of aircraft after the engine starts. Two ground crewmen pulling canvas covering off the wing of a B-10 in heavy snow. A Martin B-10 taxiing on snow-covered field. The B-10 taking off from snow-covered field. A Martin B-10 in flight.
View of the Virginia State Capitol Building and African American people nearby in Richmond, Virginia
Activities of people in Richmond, Virginia. Examples of "Jim Crow" laws (racial segregation). View of the White House of the Confederacy (1201 E Clay St, Richmond, VA 23219, United States) in Richmond, Virginia. The sign reads White House of the Confederacy entrance on Clay St'. Buses parked in front of the "colored waiting room". White pedestrians at crossing on Broad Street. Highway sign reads "Colored tourists stop at Hotel McGuire, Route 1, Fredericksburg, Virginia." View of the Virginia State Capitol building (1000 Bank St, Richmond, VA 23218, United States) in the background.
Astronaut Virgil Grissom gets in the cockpit of F-102 Delta Dagger jet.
NASA Astronaut Virgil Grissom, in flight suit, leaves building, at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, and walks toward a Convair F-102 Delta Dagger jet from the 48th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. Another F-102 jet parked on the airfield. Grissom inspects the aircraft and then climbs onto the cockpit.
New York Yankees play baseball against New York Giants in 1936 World Series; also Grover Whalen showing 1939 Worlds Fair plans.
Crowd cheers and waves during New York Yankees and New York Giants game in the 1936 World Series at Polo Grounds IV in Manhattan, New york. Yankee manager, Joe McCarthy and Giants manager, Bill Terry on the field and they shake hands. Governor of New York State Herbert H. Lehman throws out first pitch, with Mayor La Guardia beside him. Babe Ruth, guest of honor, watches the match. Crowd cheer as the game proceeds. In next segment: Grover Whalen, President of New York World's Fair Corporation points out highlights of 1939 New York World's Fair on a preliminary model with the help of a stick, for visiting dignitaries. Footage from a September 1961 newsreel hightlighting stories from 25 years earlier.
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