Henry Ford and others load mail sacks from a truck onto a plane in United States. Plane takes off. Other plane takes off from a snow covered runway. Ford Trimotors,cars and mail trucks on a snow covered field. Planes take off. A man sits at a desk and other man brings airmail letters. The first man sorts through the letters.
Workers with huge disc of clay fastened on an axle between two wooden wheels in United States. They move it over and place on a large potters wheel. Potter shapes a huge pot for melting glass.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives at the stand and is greeted by the Vice President Richard Nixon. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter,American ambassador to United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge,Soviet ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov also arrive with the Soviet Premier. Vice President Nixon speaks into the microphone on the review stand followed by Premier Khrushchev and his interpreter's speech. Vice President Nixon and Premier Khrushchev enter a limousine and drive away. A Russian TU-114 takes off.
A group of United States marines, some of them injured. Marine Private Albert Smith narrates experiences about Gaudal canal campaign. He explains the exchange of fires between Japan and Allied troops. (World War II period).
Views of United States Army soldiers talking on radio sets. A radio engineer working on a radio set. Radio sets and tubes of early times shown. Then a SCR (Signal Corps Radio) 694 radio set is displayed. U.S. Army soldiers moving in military vehicles with SCR 694 radio set and working with SCR 694 in fields. A case containing transmitter and receiver are thrown into water by a soldier. Case floating in water. Soldiers working with different components of SCR 694 radio set. (World War II period).
f Opening image shows handwritten letter written by an imigrant to the U.S. from Europe. Camera pans over various outdoor scenes of the United States, as voices of men and women in the background extols marvels of America. A map of Europe is shown as narrator describes the problems in European countries. A woman sowing seed by hand on a European farm. European farmers using shovels to spread something over a plot of land. A farmer walking behind a plow pulled by a single horse. An old man tells how the land they had in Europe wasn't enough to feed their family of three, So his father decided to come to America (probably in the period from 1880 to 1920).
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