U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in White House, Washington D.C., United States. The President at a press conference announces a cut down in Cuba's assigned share of America's sugar market by 95%. Sugar cane fields as men cut canes. Canes loaded onto carts and tractors and is transported to factories to be processed and made into sugar.
Democratic convention of 1960 in Los Angeles, California, in advance of the 1960 Presidential election in the United States. Various candidates competing for the nomination at the convention arrive in Los Angeles and receive a warm welcome. Lyndon Johnson arrives as his supporters gather to cheer him. Adlai Stevenson's supporters carrying his posters welcome him at the airport. Senator John F. Kennedy being given a warm welcome as girls dance and people cheer him. At the convention in Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena Senator Frank Church addresses the delegates. He talks about the two blocks- Democratic and Communist. He appeals to the delegates to nominate a powerful leader as their Presidential candidate.
Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. First batch of 15,000 workers who were employed under the Works Progress Administration at a construction site in Birmingham, Alabama. Workers line up as their names are entered in a roll register. A worker wears a pair of tattered shoes. A man drinks from a mug. Workers construct houses. Houses after their completion. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.
International jump off in Aachen, Germany. Participants display excellent horsemanship at the international jump off as they make their horses jump over obstacles. A participant from United States falls while in an attempt to jump over an obstacle. German team wins the competition. The winner team.
Screening of a film to support the stay in school fund drive in Washington D.C., United States. At the F street in Washington D.C. a large number of people gather for the screening of film ' Charade ' to support the stay in school fund drive. A poster of the film. Mrs. Sargent Shriver, Robert Kennedy and his wife, Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife arrive for the screening.
Preparations for United States Army Air Force operations against the Japanese in China. Chinese men , women and children at the construction site of an airfield. Women carry boulders in cane baskets. Men and women work at the field. Hand drawn carts loaded with boulders. Men pile up boulders in a field. Boys near a muddy water pool. Men carry water in baskets. A roller moves over the airfield.
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