Animated chart illustrates points included in annual Coast Guard inspections of Commercial ships. Coast Guard officers examine safety equipment on the deck of a merchant vessel. Seamen open safety equipment on a lifeboat, under as Coast Guard inspector looks on. Coast Guard inspector measures length of a life boat oar and checks its strength. Life jackets are examined for deterioration and date-stamped. Wartime escape hatch is inspected. Seaman demonstrates using it to exit in emergency. Marker lights are inspected. Inspectors examine the ship's Lyle gun (for firing a line during rescues) and its gun powder. Seamen empty liquid fire extinguishers so they can be re-charged. Fire-fighting nozzles are measured and fire hoses are tested. (One springs a leak at a connection.) Inspectors conduct hydrostatic tests of the ship's boilers and then inspect interior of a boiler. View of inspector climbing out of a boiler. A ship in dry dock for inspection is also inspected by the Coast Guard, at the same time. Inspectors examining ships screws and hull thickness. Inspectors deep in hull compartments of the ship. View of Certificate of Inspection being completed. (World War II period).
Highlights Harry S. Truman's role after World War II. Truman addresses a large audience. Truman eats his meal aboard cruiser Augusta.
President Harry S. Truman at his home in Missouri with his wife and daughter Margaret. He visits a men's wear store and shakes hands with neighbors. Truman kissed by March of Dimes poster girl.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and English Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet a number of times during Atlantic Conference, then in Washington and at Casablanca Conference to discuss the preparations and strategy for World War II. Weapons manufactured and transported.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of State George Marshal and other officers prepare the strategy for American invasion during World War II. America invades French African territories. Bombs dropped over the area.
Litter of kittens in a box. Mother cat picks up one of her litter by the nape of the neck and carries it away, out of sight. Man places mother cat and kitten back into the box. She jumps out, but returns later to pick up kitten again.
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