The Grohar brothers, grocers, induce workers to build a new store in Joliet, Illinois, during the Great Depression. Unemployed debtors including carpenters,brick layers,plasterers,grocers and other artisans work on building of a new store to pay off their due debts. The new store known as 'the store that friendship built'. A cement trolley on ground. Two men note. Workers paint roof. Workers eat food.
Activities at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War I. An early morning scene shows a large number of new De Havilland DH-4 bombers, painted in French colors, parked on the airfield. Pilots and mechanics begin to move amongst the aircraft and work on them. Extended panorama of hangars and buildings with clouds in the sky. New DH-4 and Spad XIII aircraft near canvas hangars. Some aircraft stripped for parts or repair. Mechanics and pilots near the aircraft. Men smooth parts of the airfield using horse-drawn wooden platforms. Pilots and mechanics near new and repaired parked aircraft.
U.S. President John Kennedy attends the first ballgame played at the new $20 million District of Columbia Stadium, or DC Stadium, in April 1962. 45,000 spectators in stands for the opening of the stadium and the Major League Baseball season. Glimpse of the new DC Stadium in Washington, DC, filled with baseball fans. President John F. Kennedy enters the ballpark, accompanied by David Francis Powers, and proceeds toward seats bearing the Presidential seal. Spectators in nearby seats stand to greet the President, and several shake his hand. Scene shifts to players and newsmen on the field all focused on President Kennedy. News photographers are busy photographing him. Camera shifts to President Kennedy making a long throw followed by the ballplayers scrambling for it on the ballfield. View of the President smiling after his throw, with Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen standing to his left, and slightly behind him, and David Powers to his right. Senator George Smathers of Florida is laughing behind them. The President bends down momentarily revealing Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, directly behind him and Special Assistant to the President Lawrence “Larry” O’Brien, at Mansfield's right. Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, wearing sun glasses is behind and to left of Dirksen. Closeup of Home plate umpire Charlie Berry shouting "Play Ball!" after brief rain delay. Lights are on during daytime as game is played. Washington Senators player hits single to left field. Senators go on to beat the visiting Detroit Tigers 4-1. (Note: The stadium was later renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, or RFK Stadium, in 1969).
Crowd read news about African occupation in Lisbon, Portugal during World War II. Exterior of office of newspaper 'Seculo' shows crowd reading latest dispatches about African occupation. Exterior of office of newspaper 'Diario de Lisboa'. Newsboys around a door. News vendors rush down stairs with bundles of papers. News vendor's kiosk where papers of all countries are sold. Newsstand with foreign papers. First edition of Diario de Lisboa is sold at barber shop on the day of occupation of North Africa.
Street signs showing New Jersey Avenue and N.W. L Street in Washington DC at night. A thief snatches a purse from a woman waiting at a bus stop at night. Woman attempts to run after thief. Hands searching a a street location file cabinet at police headquarters. A police officer pushes pins into an Oakland, CA spot map. Highway engineers consults a spot map in urban traffic planning. Engineer's hands using ruler for a new traffic plan Vacant lot with a frozen puddle and discarded tire in the Washington, D.C. area. A small house sitting beside a new modern building under construction at N Taylor Street and 4201 Lee Highway Arlington, VA 22207 Sign hanging outside 4201 Lee Highway apartment building reads, “NOW RENTING RENTAL OFFICE OPEN WEEK-ENDS”. In a Washington D.C. street with row houses, a dilapidated house bears a sign saying, “Rooms and Apts. Apply ACME RENTAL COMPANY 1011 7th ST., N.W.”. A closed factory with boarded windows. Some glass windows shattered in factory building. Wrecking ball smashes a wall in a derelict building being demolished in an urban renewal project. A police officer inspects a building at night. View of a Police Beat Location map color-coded according to level of police activity with montage of police on patrol in the city.
Rescue operations underway for crew of sunken submarine SMS Thetis (N25) at Liverpool Bay, England. Rescue fleet in the area and more boats approaching. Airplanes in flight over the Bay. Posters on wall at waiting area where families wait for news. Helicopter flies over rescue ships. Man demonstrates breathing apparatus and life jacket equipment like that available to the sailors on the stricken submarine. Picture of interiors of the submarine. Survivors being taken in a car. Wife of submarine commander speaks. Relatives of passengers aboard the submarine wait for news. A large ship anchored beside the partially submerged wreckage of the submarine.
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