Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the War Industries Board during World War 1, poses with other men outdoors. Individuals arrive at a building to attend War Industries Board meeting. Individuals arrive and depart. Several women arrive by car to attend the meeting.
Snow in Washington DC. Men shovel snow. U.S. Capitol building in the background. White House in the snow. Lincoln Memorial with horse drawn sleighs in foreground. Children slide down hill in front of Lincoln Memorial on sleds.
Adobe construction shown in Native American settlement in New Mexico. Men shoveling clay soft clay and straw together into a wooden mold wheel barrow. He empties the mold along with others, on the ground where many are already laid out. Scene shift to open yard where many of these adobe building blocks are stacked up, on end. Workers mixing clay mud at a construction site and delivering it to workers, on wooden scaffolding, finishing the exterior of an adobe building. Closeup of an adobe masons smoothing clay with their bare hands on various parts of the structure. Closeups of features of adobe structures. Views of an entire adobe village. Outdoor ovens (hornos) are seen in foreground.
Opening slate advertises "National Air Mail Week. May 15-21. The 20th Anniversary of your air mail service!" Men load a DC-3 airplane with mail bags at an airport in the United States. Transport truck brings more mail and men load the bags. 1918 Map of United States showing Air Mail connection between New York and Washington. 1923, 1928, 1933 and 1938 maps show further connections to cities such as Chicago, Salt Lake, San Francisco and other destinations. Brief view of International routes between Asia and the United States, and from the United States to South America. Men load mail bags on a plane. The DC-3 plane takes off. Dirigible in background. Closing slate, "Don't Forget. National Air Mail Week."
1940's vintage educational film on raising healthy and happy children in the United States. Teenage girl and boy, in bathing suits, paddling a canoe in canal. The boy paddles the towards the bank of canal and they both climb out and watch another couple in canoe pass. Young children play with a dog in the garden. A young boy holds a ball. A woman breast feeds her child. Baby lies on his stomach. Baby in the mother's lap. Baby jumps on a bed. Toddler of four years old in garden, plays and stand by walker. Babies by the chair and table. More children in the garden. Babies smile. Children of seven, eight, and nine years old play. Healthy young children. A young girl climbs up a pole. A boy in shorts hoists himself on a pullup bar.
Women and children collect vegetables. A man with eggs walks out of a barn with a young girl. Examples of recommended food servings and healthy diet for growing children, per Department of Foods and Nutrition of the New York State College of Home Economics. Milk poured in a glass. Orange squeezed for juice. Woman cuts cabbage, potatoes, vegetables in a vintage 1940's kitchen. Dry beans in glass bottles. Woman cuts meat into pieces, spreads butter on bread. Fruits in a plate. Woman prepares food and fries bacon. Teenage boys and girls in bathing suits walk along a dirt path. A young man throws a discus. Teenage boys and girls on tennis court play tennis. The girls wear tennis skirt outfits and the boys wear only shirts and are shirtless. Two teenage youth wrestle. Men shovel hay. U.S. Army Air Corps pilots confer and then board Curtiss P-36 Hawk military airplanes at airfield. They take off and fly the P-36 aircraft.
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