A track race in Big Springs, Texas. Dave Sime and Bobby Morrow meet in a contest. Sime takes advantage on Morrow and wins the race by a foot and a half. Gauge of an apparatus shows 20 miles per hour wind. Runners stand at the starting line. The runners run on the track. Dave Sime with a man.
Kelso is named the 'Horse of the Year'. Competes in the Washington DC International at Laurel Park in Maryland. Kelso in its stable. Kelso runs in the D.C. International while spectators watch from the stands. A man feeds Kelso.
U.S. Open Golf Tournament in United States. Jack Nicklaus holes the ball to win the U.S. Open title. He shakes hand with a man and then embraces his wife, Barbara. Arnold Palmer during the British Open in Britain. Palmer strikes the ball and wins the tournament. British audiences watch the tournament. Palmer raises the British Open trophy.
Damage caused by 1937 flood in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. A heavy loss of property due to a flood. Supplies being unloaded from trucks for the people. People being rescued from the areas affected by flood. Men aboard boats moving through buildings on the edge of the Ohio River that are submerged in water. Men moving a wooden casket. Destroyed houses and buildings in the areas. Flooded streets. A weather vane blowing briskly in wind. Narrator details how the weather bureau forecasts the weather and offers the information to help prevent losses from such disasters. Automatic typing machine records weather instrument readings. View of newspapers being printed at a printing press. A radio tower. People gather near injured flood victims. People lined up on the street to get supplies. Scenes of floodwaters below Memphis where flooding was effectively contained. Water rushing under the then new Bonnet Carre spillway of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Man opens a book published in Lisbon in 1605, now in the Library of Congress, written by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, reporting on the exploration team of De Soto on leaf 300 of the book. De Soto's group, in 1543, reported on the flood they saw below current day Memphis, extending over 20 leagues of land, covering the tops of trees, but not overrunning the homes of the Native Americans who build shelter atop high poles. A view of submerged homes in the 1937 flood are shown as the narrator laments that more modern people did worse than the Native American Indians.
The working of the steam turbines in the United States. Steam turbines in a factory. The previous steam turbines faced the problems of speed control. The modern steam turbines are thus directed through larger sized blades. The longer and larger blades being used for the expansion of steam efficiently. The blades operate in high ad low pressure. Steam enters from the boiler to the turbine. It is regulated by the control valve inside the turbine. The steam strikes the blades inside the turbine and the blades move. The longer and larger blades allow the steam to expand efficiently. Man works on the steam turbine.
The working of the steam turbines in the United States. Men work in a steam turbine factory. Electricity being generated through the working of a steam turbine. Electricity in houses and buildings. Men operate the machinery and equipment in factories through the power generated by steam turbines. Men aboard a ship. A man at controls of the ship. Ship convoy underway at sea.
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