WPA (Works Progress Administration) units carry out relief projects in dust bowl sections in the United States, during the Great Depression. A drought and dried area thick with dust. The hot dry winds blow. A dust storm occurs. Two people - a woman and a boy, are seen walking with difficulty in the dust storm. Food and medical supplies are delivered to dust storm victims. The women fill water from a hand pump. Nurses treat the children and examine them for respiratory problems and other ailments. The children seated on a bench. A nurse writes into a paper. A close up of a boy with a thermometer in his mouth. A nurse checks eyes of a boy. Horse drawn equipment and teams of farmers with horses . The farmers employed by the WPA work. The farmers are hired by the WPA to construct a new road, with much of the digging and leveling done with horse drawn power. The farmers on horse drawn carrier move on a road. They are at work during the project. Relief workers and men who suffered from drought construct dams to help stop land erosion. The workers building the dam substructure and hauling rocks during the construction.
WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers help in stopping fire in a forest in the United States during the Great Depression. Wildfire raging in a forest. Smoke and flames seen among trees. The WPA workers get in trucks. They drive towards the area where fire took place. They get emerge from trucks and fight the fire with limited equipment and limited protective clothing. Men cut the trees. The trees burning. The men place sand with shovels. They spray water with a hose. Black smoke in sky. Men dig holes in the region.
U.S. Air Force 50th Anniversary being celebrated in Washington D.C., United States. The spectators crowd at the Andrews Air Force Base for watch the air show. The aircraft parked at the base. The spectators look at the aircraft. The spectators watch the Bendix Trophy race. USAF (United States Air Force) F-102 Delta Dagger in flight. The spectators look at the aircraft in flight. An officer looks through a binocular. F-102 lands at the base. The spectators in the foreground. F-102 taxis and a parachute opens. A dignitary shakes hand with the Captain Kenneth Chandler of F-102 and gives him the Bendix Trophy. A jet takes off. The jet in flight. The spectators watch the jet in flight. A Vintage Bleriot 1909 aircraft hovers in air. A Curtiss Pusher 1910 and Bleriot in flight. The aircraft in flight in formation. The spectators look at the aircraft flying.
Arlington Handicap horse race at Arlington Park racetrack in Chicago, Illinois. The spectators seated in a stand. The race starts. Horses run on tracks. The spectators cheer. Manassas wins the race.
U.S. General Nathan Twining becomes the new chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff in Washington D.C., United States. New U.S. Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElory. A close up of Neil. Twining takes a pledge as a new chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower holds Bible in his hands. Eisenhower shakes hands with twining. The members of the defense team congratulate him. Outgoing chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Arthur W. Radford congratulates Twining. Men take pictures. Retiring U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson congratulates Twining. A close up of Twining.
A collie named 'Blaze' is presented with a medal for saving her 3 year old mistress from a sow in Chicago, Illinois. People seated in a hall. Blaze, his mistress and a woman walk in a the hall. A man puts a medal in the neck of Blaze. Blaze seated on a platform. People seated celebrate. The dog and his mistress together.
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