Thousands of workers get back to work in the United States. A group of workers works on equipment inside a machine manufacturing plant in New Jersey. The workers welding inside the factory. Workers collect onions from fields in Kenton, Ohio. Workers increase the production of washing machine in Chicago.
Manufacturing of Army rifles in the United States during World War 1. Workers at a small arms plant in the U.S. examine wooden rifle stocks during World War 1. Men wheeling numerous dollies of rifle stocks to another part of the factory. Fully assembled rifles (appear to be either 1914 or M1917),loaded on a tray are lowered by African American workers using a manual pulley hoist to place them into a bath of hot cosmoline grease (for preservation). Then they are raised and moved to above a draining table, where they are removed and placed on a dolly. Men clean up the drippings. Next scene shows an African American worker placing the new rifles in wooden boxes for shipment. Closeup of an open wooden box of rifles ready for closing and shipping. Workers stacking 10 wooden shipping boxes of rifles in a hand dolly and moving it to shipping dock.
The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. A helicopter landing on a field in Pennsylvania. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with officials disembarks from the helicopter. Photographers taking pictures of the President. The President shaking hands with a few officials. Cars parked outside a building. The Barlow Firemen's Hall building. President Eisenhower standing with the officials inside the hall. Photographers taking pictures. A clock showing 7 O' clock. The President takes a ballot paper from an officer at a polling station and goes inside an area separated by a curtain and casts his vote. The President puts the ballot paper in a ballot box. President's wife Mamie Eisenhower casting her vote in the voting booth. Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. and his wife at a polling booth in Maryland viewing polling procedures. A woman officer showing a voting machine to the dignitaries. Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon cast their votes at a polling station in a town in California. They put ballot papers in a ballot box. Democratic Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy casting their votes at a polling booth in Boston, Massachusetts. Several reporters taking pictures at the booth. Boards on buildings indicating a legal holiday on the election day. People entering a building to cast their votes. Burmese Ambassador to the U.S. at a polling booth in New York. View of Burmese officials. People in a queue at polling booths on the election day to cast votes. The U.S. flag and people at a polling booth.
The construction of the Golden Gate bridge spanning the Golden Gate in the United States. A spinning wheel on a cable over the bridge. Workers work on the bridge. Automobile traffic on the George Washington Bridge in New York and close view of its construction form. Then view returns to Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The spinning wheel carries three wire loops on cables in one trip. Bridge men place wires onto spinning wheels. The bridge men place the wires on clamps at an anchorage. A bridge man on the foot bridge near a wire. A wire operator operates a push button control. Other operators adjust the wires to clear obstructions. The workers replace the empty reel by another fresh wire reel on the spinning wheel. Aerial view of the bridge men at work. The cable wires at poles. A dispatcher works on a communication device to communicate with a bridge man. The spinning wheel at operation. An anemometer shows wind velocity. An dirigible airship over the bridge. Aerial point of view shot of the bridge from the airship. Animation depicts comparison between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Suspenders are trolleyed up. They are trolled on cables. A rope on a spinning wheel. Workers stand on a huge cable. A worker places a rope in a groove.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, looking frail, after his election to a 4th term, late in 1944. Newspapers announce his death, on April 12, 1945. View from high above, of funeral procession for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Crowds of mourners line sidewalks in Washington, DC, along the funeral route. Members of the military, in the crowd, salute as the flag-covered coffin of the President passes. Military pallbearers carry the coffin into the White House for a funeral service in the East Room. On April 15, 1945, Pallbearers carry Roosevelt’s coffin to a gravesite at the Roosevelt family home, Springwood, in Hyde Park, New York. Eleanor Roosevelt at President Roosevelt’s gravesite (4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, United States) with her children, including sons, James and Elliott, both in military uniforms.
The history of famous airplanes. Aviators Edward F Schlee and William S. "Billy" Brock at Curtiss Field in New York, United States. An aircraft parked on the airfield. Brock and Schlee stand beside the aircraft. Pilot Brock's head protrudes from the pilot's compartment of the airplane. 'Miss Wayco' painted on the nose section of the airplane. The pilot waves towards the spectators. Stinson monoplane model, 'Pride of Detroit' aircraft flown by the two men. The aircraft takes off. The two men stand beside their airplane at Harbor Grace in Newfoundland. Men work on their aircraft. A tarpaulin lying over the top of engine for protection. Men pour fuel in the wing tanks from five gallon containers. A man works on the engine. Spectators gather around the airplane. The aircraft takes off from Newfoundland. Spectators perched upon a hill nearby.
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