Flood in Midwest United States. Rain brings heavy flood damage. Five Mid Western States ravaged by floods. Buildings surrounded with flood water. Flooded areas of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. Water touches surface of a bridge as a man looks on. Ground flooded with water as people look on.
Fire at a Whiskey warehouse in Glasgow, Scotland. A warehouse filled with 28 million dollars worth of scotch whiskey burns and explodes. Flames rise from the warehouse. Water being sprayed on fire by fire fighters during Cheapside Street whisky bond warehouse fire. Firemen stand on roof. They spray water from fire hoses on the blaze. Flames soar as whisky alcohol ignites. More than 19 fire fighters die and 40 more are injured fighting the fire.
Film demonstrates working of the Alcohol-O-Mat in Germany, a precursor to the modern breathalyzer. A drunk man comes out of a house drunk and smoking a cigarette. He gets into a Volkswagen convertible and drives dangerously. Next, we see the same man with Alcohol-O-Mat device installed in the car. The driver breathes into a large funnel and the device lights up, releases smoke, sounds a siren, and sprays water on the him because it has detected him to be intoxicated. "AlkoholOMat" is printed in German on the device. The driver leaves the Volkswagen and the woman accompanying him helps him to walk.
De Soto Festival Golf Tourney near Bradenton, Florida. Sign reads 'De Soto Lake', '500ft Golf and country club'. With spectators near him, Sam Snead tees off, followed by Jerry Barber. Crowds walk across the fairway following the players. One spectator wears a Spanish Conquistador's helmet. Arnold Palmer makes a 30 foot putt, to cheers from spectators. In the final round, Snead makes a long putt to nibble at Barber's lead. Non-contender, Bob Golby, thrills the crowd by making a 40 foot chip shot from off the green, that falls in with the pin still in the hole. Jerry Barber makes his last putt, but loses to Snead who putts out with a final score of 276, to Barber's 275.
Film begins showing a U.S. Air Force Convair B-58 Delta wing Hustler bomber taking off. Views of the aircraft maneuvering in flight. An unmanned Snark turbojet missile is seen launching from an inclined position, and then discharging a bomb in flight. An Atlas missile on a launching pad. Closeup shows the Strategic Air Command Logo on its side. An Atlas missile launching. A Thor intermediate range ballistic missile being launched. A Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile launching in a cloud of smoke. Scene shifts to Airmen of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command performing duties around a parked B-52 bomber. Three crew members climb aboard a B-52 bomber.
Klaxon horns sound alert signals and U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) flight crews, on alert, stop what they are doing and rush from their quarters to jeeps, that take them to their aircraft. They are seen clambering aboard their bomber aircraft. Closeup of a B-47E-30-LM Stratojet bomber, tail number 52-264, taxiing. Closeup of its wheels. The B-47 taking off from a base in the continental United States. In Alaska, a B-52 bomber taxis on a plowed taxiway in a snowy airfield. Local people watch as two B-52 bombers take off from a SAC base in Africa. Formations of B-52 bomber in flight. View of Air Force personnel inside the SAC headquarters Command and Control Center at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Scene shifts to a B-47 bomber flying directly overhead and an Atlas missile being launched. Glimpse of pilot and copilot inside the cockpit of a SAC bomber in flight. A nuclear bomb dropping from an open bomb bay viewed from inside the aircraft. An atomic explosion during one of the tests conducted by the United States, in the Pacific, from 1946 to 1958.
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