Trucks and workers operate after midnight for availing next day facilities to people, in New York and other cities of the United States. Alarm rings in morning and a man starts with his daily activities. Workers maintain water supply at night. Electrician maintains power distribution lines during night. Orange juice for morning breakfast of people in New York loaded on trucks in Florida. Likewise eggs from a distant farm transported in truck. View of Armour's Star ham and bacon truck with "Armour" sign on front being loaded at plant. Coffee, sugar and many such things transported in trucks. Morning street view in New York City with tall buildings and light car traffic on road. Small town in America with shops on a Main Street and 1930s and 1940s cars parked on streets. Produce market in a town with woman discussing vegetables and fruits with grocer A farmer loads potatoes on a truck beside a farm field. Truck driving away from cattle stockyard with Beef cattle in truck. Sign on barn reads "Peterson Bros. Herefords of Quality." Meat hanging from hooks in butcher shop. General Electric home refrigerators being loaded onto a a truck for delivery. Traffic and pedestrians in front of the S. Karpen & Brothers furniture manufacturing company building in Queens at 37-18 Northern Boulevard, Long Island City, New York. "Karpen Furniture" signs seen on building. Dining Room table furniture being loaded onto a truck. A Hahn's Express delivery truck on a road. Boxes of consumer goods being loaded into trucks at a warehouse. Fresh cut timber logs loaded onto trucks for transport. "Prestridge and Seligman Timber Products" sign on truck doors. Line of timber trucks delivers logs at saw mill (possibly routing from logging at the Mescalero Reservation of the Sacramento Mountains to Southwest Lumber Company, or SWLCo, lumber mill, operating near Alamogordo) for processing into lumber products. Ford D-8 trucks move on the roads.
Excerpt from "The City". Smoke comes out from industrial chimney in factoriesnd causes air and water pollution. Houses in the city are congested, streets are narrow and children have no ground to play. Smoke can prove to be hazardous as it may lead to various diseases like Tuberculosis, Rickets and Typhoid. People run across the railway track before a train arrives with its engine emitting smoke. A man and a girl walk through narrow city streets with congested houses. After the day gets over workers return to their houses as their wives do household chores. A women pumps out water as another worker washes his dirty face and hands after a long days work. Smoke coming out from factories, houses and rail engines cause pollution and leads to environmental degradation.
A New York State Police officer questions a woman holding puppies in her hand, in Babylon, Long Island, New York. Armed State Police along with Babylon town police and Sheriff's deputies are on a manhunt. They search in a forest and a house as well. An officer sends a message by radio. Officers make inquiries among residents of the area. Several times officers are seen holding mug shots of the escaped criminal. Police employ a hound in the search. View of the hound looking out the window of a car.
View from German airplane flying over Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) Poland, during World War 2 (September, 1939) highlighting numerous bridges destroyed by the German bombing campaign during invasion of Poland. Polish civilians sit on bank of a river, next to destroyed bridge, awaiting boats to ferry them across. Makeshift ferry operations are seen. Women and children throw flowers at German troops passing in military vehicles. German troops engaged in cleanup of bomb damage and helping free a stuck military vehicle, transporting a long barrel artillery gun. Animated map shows shrinking perimeter of Polish military resistance during September, 1939. Polish Army prisoners of war marching along a road.
A representative of Prisoners War Branch (a MIS-X officer) interviews American soldiers who had escaped from the Japanese 10-A prison camp in Palawan, Philippines, and had then been rescued. Private first class Albert D Pacheco and Edwin A Petry share their experiences before they reached the World War 2 Japanese prison camp at Puerta Princessa, Palawan and the conditions there. Petry describes the famous five days long death march to San Fernando, where war prisoners were not given any food.
People line up in large number to enter Hotel Waldorf Astoria to view General Motor's auto show Motorama in New York City, United States. Sign reads “GM General Motors Motorama of 1953” at the entrance of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel (301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men form long lines on Park Avenue. Dancers perform a ballet in front of a large audience during the motor show.
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