General Omar Bradley presents the Medal of Honor to families of American soldiers who died in Korea, during the Korean War. Women with their children receive Medal of Honor for their loved one who died. General Bradley talks to the kids who lost their fathers.
Audience and crowd at National Spelling Championship. Young boys and girls in spelling bee spell out words given by a man at a microphone. Sandra Gloss of St Louis, Missouri becomes the new champion after Jean Copeland of Phoenix, Arizona misspells a word, and Ms. Gloss spells her final word correctly.
Big guns manufacture for new fighter aircraft at Washington Navy Yard. Aircraft overhead. U.S. Navy officer points on a map. Captain and crew on ship's deck. Warship underway at sea. Explosions in water.
Senator Key Pittman and Representative Ralph Brewster argue the Half-billion-dollar Naval appropriations bill.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy at his desk. Aero Commander 680 plane wreckage after crash near Southampton, Massachusetts. Policemen and police cars at the crash site, where Senator Kennedy had been pulled from the wreckage. Sign at entrance of hospital reads 'The Cooley Dickinson Hospital - Entrance'. Cars parked outside the hospital. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and others at the hospital. Robert Kennedy at a mike in a press conference. Cameramen record the event.
Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.
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