Dairy and produce transport by trucks in Washington DC and surrounding areas. A worker at a refrigerated railroad box loads produce of fruit and vegetables onto a W. Chas Heitmuller wholesale company truck in Washington DC. Truck carrying produce moves away from the loading area. Men deliver goods from truck into a Sanitary Grocery Company store in Washington DC (The Sanitary chain was later acquired by Safeway). Men driving trucks carrying livestock. Two African American farm workers load barrels of produce onto a truck on a farm field. A line of trucks from the W.A. Simpson Dairy in Washington DC drives on a rural road transporting Simpson's Milk to the city. A Simpson Milk truck backs into a bay at a home or business in a Washington DC neighborhood for a delivery. View of pneumatic tires on a truck, that ease wear on the roads.
Trucks on a two lane highway and various railway crossings and subways, United States. Cars and trucks on bend of a busier four lane highway nearer to a major city. A busy four lane highway with cars and motor trucks. A guard raises a block by hand at a railroad crossing after the train passes by. Steam locomotive pulling train cars approaches and goes under an overpass carrying cars. Construction workers near a crane on a road are seen with car traffic on the road while a steam locomotive railroad train passes over top on an elevated railway track.
Maryland State Police motorcycle patrolmen at their post, with sign "Maryland State Police - Substation A". A police patrolman notices a moving violation by a motorist and gets on his motorcycle to pursue. The police officer pulls over the motorist and is seen writing a ticket for the woman driver in the car. A police officer on foot stands at a busy intersection and gives hand commands to control traffic at a bend on highway. Winter time views show a a big snow plow as it removes snow from highways during winters. Many 1920's and 1930's automobiles, including cars, trucks, and buses are seen on American roads and highways. A car passes on a bridge. Cars drive on a four lane. Next scene shows the Statue of Liberty as seen up close from an approaching boat. Final scene shows Bandmaster and United States Marine Corps band as they play. The conductor turns and takes a bow.
Unhealthy living conditions and shabby conditions of people in blue collar slums in the U.S. Factories and industrial areas emit smoke, smog, and pollution from smokestacks in the early morning, as children ascend a set of wooden steps in foreground. Piles of trash outside a residential slum area of factory and coal workers. Landscape of crowded shacks and industrial factories clouded with smog. Children play on wooden walkways and railings near shacks. A boy slides down a railing standing up. Sad looking girl looks on. A little boy in overalls has his hands in his pockets and a sad, blank expression on his face. A train passes by on an overhead trestle a few feet away from simple shack homes. Women and children live in unhealthy conditions during Great Depression. Group of children scamper and run over railroad tracks. Shabby children in the dilapidated slum area. A woman watches them. Fast approaching locomotive train speeds toward camera and passes by. After train passes, a boy races back onto the track area to fetch something there. Many scenes of muddy dirt roads, slums, shacks, and factory mills. A man loads coal pieces into a hand bucket and limps back toward a shack, as his right leg has a prosthetic. African American man brushes chickens away from doorway of wooden shack and enters front door. Woman empties wash basin out front porch as dog looks on. Children ascend wooden steps in tenement complex. Children play with a puppy dog. Glum looking sad boy and girl children stare forward. Woman hands laundry from line as boy walks by and enters outhouse. Man smoking pipe draws water from a hand pump. Elderly woman hangs wash on line. Man returns home carrying lunch box. Young woman and old man and old woman each pump water. Man stands at table with wash basin and soap, and scrubs dirt off hands and face after work. Overweight woman cooks food at a coal stove, adds coal and stirs. Smoke from brick chimney. Black smoke from large steam shovel crane and smoke pollution from railroad trains in marshaling yards.
A horse and a woman eat near a road. Civilians eat and dine at various fast food restaurants, lunch counters, diners, and road side stands in the United States. A woman waitress prepares coffee for people at a public diner. People drink coffee at lunch counter or diner. Examples of early fast food automation, including kitchen worker pushing bread loaves through automatic bread slicing machine. Toast pops up from high capacity restaurant toaster. Cheese or meat drops from automated slicer onto counter. Hands seen preparing sandwich at high speed. Automated system dispenses batter onto hot griddle or pan to make pancakes. Man dispenses coffee from large silver coffee urn. Close view of diners eating sandwiches and drinking coffee. Automated pancake flipping spatula on machine turns pancakes. Rapid fire scenes of food preparation. Hand with cloth wipes counter clean from crumbs. Two women wipe their mouths at same time and rise from seats at lunch counter to leave.
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry in Savannah, Georgia. Barbour Lathrop Plant Introduction Garden. A scientist works on plant and tests soil in a laboratory. People in field work on plant and Tung trees.
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