The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. The Donner Pass built in the northern Sierra Nevade mountains of California. New roads built for the travelers. A monument marks the place where scores of pioneers perished due to starvation and exposure. Monument includes a sculpture of a family and an inscription in their memory.
The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. A modern highway replaces the historic Oregon Trail in the Mount Hood National Forest near Portland in Oregon. A modern overland traveler pays tribute to the memory of a pioneer woman. The man gets off his car, walks to the grave and pays his respects.
Textile workers go on strike in Georgia, United States. Textile workers (possibly from Celanese Corporation in Rome, Georgia) carrying placards outside a factory. Smokestacks are seen in the background. Placards say 'Textile Workers on Strike' and 'Give us real Senority'. Textile workers on strike stand near factory fence. A worker lights his cigarette. Strike committee made up of union members and representatives from the locality and national union convene for a meeting. An African American worker speaks with the strike committee. A man takes the minutes of the meeting. A telegraph is sent through Western Union. Telephone operator transfers a call. Close up views of men and women talking on telephones. Publicity department gets the details from a typewriter. A woman mails a pamphlet “This is your fight”. A man signs a Textile Workers Union of America check made out to the Northwest Georgia Joint Board, TWUA. Man signs an official paper of 'Textile Worker Union of America'. Workers on strike line up outside the TWUA Local 689 commissary. The union commissary replenishes their stocks of food and supplies for the workers to carry them through the time without pay. Workers receive their supplies and food. A man leads the union workers to sing "We shall overcome." The worker takes his supply to his car. Interior of a house, a woman (mother, housewife) gives a glass of milk to a boy, man seated on chair in living room reading newspaper and his family with boy on sofa, and wife joins him.
Hollywood producer Robert Lord is seen in stands of ballpark. Views of a ballpark and crowd in California,United States. Baseball game appears to be ongoing. Hollywood movie star, Joe E. Brown, is seen in St. Louis Cardinal baseball uniform. Three players in outfield, each in a different uniform, suddenly walk rapidly toward infield. They remove their shirts to reveal shoulder pads under their uniforms and laugh and clown around with a "ball player." One throws a fake punch at the "player" who falls to the ground . A man dressed as English butler, serves tea to several "baseball players" in the outfield. Filming for the movie: "Fireman Save My Child" starring Joe E. Brown, who, as part of the story, joins the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.
Interior of CBS studios in California, United States. Song plugger Murray Wisell selling song 'Now' to Perry Como. Views of piano player and Como. Sheet of the music of song, Murray Wisell smoking.
Jacqueline Cochran at United States Air Force Academy, Colorado. Miss Cochran in conversation with four cadets while walking. A chapel in background.
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