Cotton fiber being converted into yarn at the Burlington Mills in North Carolina, USA. Yarn is dyed before further operations. Skilled beamer sets colored threads into a pattern and they are rolled onto a loom beam. Beams go into a drawing machine. Prepared beams are made ready for the loom. Cotton fabric being prepared. View of cotton fabric blended with aluminum thread.
Knitted fabric of the Burlington Mills in North Carolina, USA. View of knitted fabric clothes. Women at work on a modern knitting machine. A fashion model displays garments made up of knitted fabric.
In the quality control department of the Burlington Mill, yarn is tested for its strength. The yarn is subjected to various tests including abrasion test, tensile strength test and others tests. Close up of the Burlington Mill logo on a fabric roll.
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge Jr. aboard yacht Mayflower underway in the Virginia Capes. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur along with the President aboard the yacht. A line of old battleships underway. President Coolidge looks through binoculars. The President and the Secretary of Navy review the fleet. An aircraft in flight overhead.
Waterfront near facilities of Norfolk boat builder, John H. Curtis, who perpetrated a hoax during the search for Charles Lindbergh's kidnapped son. (Curtis falsely claimed he was contacted by kidnappers who held the child on a yacht.) A wooden motor cabin boat is seen docked. The camera pans along the river past boats and a Security Storage building in the background. it focuses on the Curtis building and boatyard. A sign identifies it as "J.H. Curtis Boat & Engine Corp."
Visitors board and crowd the deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in June, 1945, near the end of world War II. The Wasp is about to depart again, for the Western Pacific, following repairs at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Two U.S. marines are escorting two women, and showing them an F4U Corsair airplane on the deck. Some of the visitors look up toward the camera. The aircraft on deck have been arranged for this static display. visitors are seen departing across a gangplank. Views from deck of the Wasp, of Navy personnel on the pier, below. Camera pans across the pier where spectators still stand. A few people stand on the water side of a building. A large group of visitors coming up from the hangar deck. Civilians and sailors wave at the camera. Visitors leaving the carrier on the gangplank.
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