The housing needs of a progressive and modern America. A newspaper advertisement conveys the expanding housing needs of the country. Statistics on individual home ownership for features like central heating, bathing facility and hot water system. New and modern houses built under the new National Housing Act. Well designed, soundly built, comfortable houses with pleasant surroundings. Gardens and paths around the houses. A house with a well. Houses surrounded with trees and fences.
Home ownership with the National Housing Act insured mortgage in United States. Men stand in line to gain home ownership. Prices and FHA (Federal Housing Administration) monthly payments on various types of homes. Layouts of small, medium and large bungalows available for 40$, 60$ and 80$ monthly payments.
Housing facilities and living conditions in the United States compared to various other countries. China: Men and women in boats, where they eat, sleep, work and live. North Pole: Eskimos stand with a sledge outside an igloo. Arabia: The Arabian desert. Arab tribal women and children outside a house in the desert. Homes along the canal in Holland, Netherlands. A man rows a boat in the canal. Houses along the canal in Venice, Italy. Men row gondolas. Crowded living conditions in the U.S. Pedestrians and houses in a crowded community market place. A modern community housing facility. Spacious houses with landscaped surroundings. Entrance to a home in an apartment building. A woman in a fully equipped kitchen with modern equipment and facilities. African American women work in the apartment laundry. Children play in the spacious gardens.
"Making Steel for War" shows powered shovel digging iron ore out of an open pit mine. After obtaining the Iron Ore ,it is crushed and shipped to steel mills. Countless open railroad cars filled with iron ore in a marshalling yard. Iron ore being loaded into an ore carrier ship. The ship carrying the Iron Ore reaches its destination, where huge cranes with claw buckets reach in and remove the iron ore from the ship. View of steel mill complex including rail yard, furnaces, and numerous structures. Powered shovel digging limestone out of open pit mine and loading it on to conveyer. Coal being discharged from coking ovens and bursting into flames when it contacts the open air. .
The raw materials used in manufacturing of steel are carried by ore cranes and transfer cars, into a blast furnace, to be smelted. Steel workers drill out the clay tap plug, tapping the blast furnace, and molten iron runs out into runners in floor, amidst flame, smoke and fumes. A technician reads the temperature of the pour using an optical pyrometer.The molten iron creates flames, smoke and fumes as it progresses to empty into a large specially designed rail car, pulled by a locomotive.
Adding scrap to the charge of an open hearth furnace during steel making. Steel Workers use crane to pick up scrap for adding to the charge of an open hearth furnace. Workers sort scrap by noting the kinds of sparks produced as it is touched to a grinding wheel. Scrap is charged into the furnace by means of machines on rails. Operator seen at controls of charging machine. Under control of operator seen in booth above, molten iron is poured into the furnace from a huge Ladle. . Workers manually shovel Ferro manganese into the furnace, in measured quantity, to control the oxygen content. Furnace is tapped by burning and ramming a plug and molten steel flows in ladle. Molten steel is 'teemed' into ingot molds. Technician checks temperature of the steel with an optical pyrometer.
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