The honorable Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy, arrives at port to inspect recently procured high speed PT Patrol boats in Quantico Virginia, United States. The boats have 30mm and 40mm guns. He examines a gun on the ship and enters inside through a hatch. The boat leaves the port. Turret of gun on boat. Officers aboard the ship take a ride on patrol boat with their guest. Views of the boat cruising at high speed.
An air pickup rescue in China. A R-6 helicopter evacuates wounded soldiers. A L-20 Beaver picks up soldiers from the ground using a technique at a speed of 130 mph. A soldier being strapped before the airlift. The aircraft lifts him up with great speed. A United States aircraft parked. (World War II period).
U.S. 105th Field Artillery troops, at Etraye in France, celebrate the armistice ending hostilities in World War I. A large American flag flies at their camp. The troops celebrate as they throw their caps high and shake hands with each other. Troops carry the United States flag and celebrate.
A man with a briefcase gets off a airplane and sets his brief case down. A plastic sheet production factory and rolls of colored plastic being created with the aid of a "Atom Ray" thickness gauge used in manufacturing. An oil drilling site. Drilling core samples of rock are extracted from the bottom of the hole. They are collected and sent to laboratory in a van. The core samples are irradiated in a particle accelerator or atom smasher and the response of different elements in the samples is observed, providing information about their composition. Activity is recorded on paper and a needle moves over a graph during particle acceleration. Engineer shows an experimental well logging device that contains a radiation source for use deep in the hole to determine nature of the strata without having to remove a core. Geologists examine a graph. Engineers subject oil samples to bombardment by neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Test apparatus is lowered down in a water pool. It is anchored to a movable rack and water is filled in the pool. The test apparatus is moved into position beside the atomic reactor uranium core. The core goes critical and irradiates the test sample with neutrons. Control equipment is switched on. Red sign illuminates with message "Reactor on." The core glows. An engineer looks to observe the test apparatus. Another engineer operates control equipment in front of a General Electric Reactor Control panel. Summary of role of radioactivity in ordinary life, in medicine, food production, manufacturing, transportation, and the home. Exterior of a a nuclear reactor is shown beside power transmission equipment. A man in a hospital room receiving treatment from cobalt machine radiotherapy or radiation therapy. (External beam radiotherapy, or EBRT machine, also called a teletherapy machine). Several cows on a farm walking beside grain silos with a farm house nearby. A man applying stain or varnish to wood with a brush. A rack of automobile whitewall tires in a warehouse. A woman or housewife in a 1950s kitchen pouring coffee for a another woman. A van passes by a suburban house on a street in a 1950s American town and a mail man or post man delivers to the house. Scenes of a main street or downtown area busy with pedestrian and street traffic in White Plains, New York. Light post on pedestal in front of a municipal building with People's National Bank and Trust Company Building in background, at 31 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, New York. Elevated, wide view of city of White Plains, New York. AT&T Telecommunications Tower and Switching Center (then in the Bell Telephone system network), at 400 Hamilton Avenue, seen rising above all other buildings.
The housing needs of a progressive and modern America. A newspaper advertisement conveys the expanding housing needs of the country. Statistics on individual home ownership for features like central heating, bathing facility and hot water system. New and modern houses built under the new National Housing Act. Well designed, soundly built, comfortable houses with pleasant surroundings. Gardens and paths around the houses. A house with a well. Houses surrounded with trees and fences.
A film titled 'Army salutes new division ready to sail overseas', shows troops of a new infantry division march as an Officer reviewing the parade salutes the soldiers. Infantry men being given insignia by the Officer. (World War II period).
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