Red Cross worker distribute clothes to Hungarian refugees at Camp Kilmer. An American Red Cross nurse gives a paper bag to a woman. Red Cross volunteer distributes clothes and necessities to Hungarian refugees. Hungarian girls receive clothing from Red Cross nurses. A Red Cross nurse fits a dress on a girl. Red Cross volunteers and Hungarian man talking to each other. Sign reads “A.R.C. Telecommunications Systems”. A Red Cross volunteer makes a call. The phone is passed on to the Hungarian man. Man calling his father on the phone in Hungarian. The phone is passed on to the elderly woman, who speaks to her husband. Each family member speaks on the phone in Hungarian. A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train moving at nighttime. Hungarian family boards a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train at night.
Flight simulator development work at Wright Air Development Center, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Cockpit of F-86D Sabre flight simulator. Technician seated in a cockpit of F-86D. Instrument panel of the flight simulator. A soundproof room used for testing. Scene changes to icing test on the rotor blades of an R-5 Sikorsky conducted at Eglin Air Force Base. R-5 in flight.
In Ohio,US farmer William Kendall make sculptures and funny faces from pumpkins. He works on the pumpkin and carves facial parts by knife. Sculptures placed on the table and on the fence. Kendall paints the sculptures with a drawing brush. A small girl sits near him as he works on pumpkin sculptures. These sculptures pay him more instead of farming.
Renewed manufacturing activity throughout the nation recalls thousands of workers as the American industry forges onward and shows some signs of improvement during the great depression. Bloomington, Illinois: Workers manufacture oil heaters. They work on various machines and equipment. Middleton, Ohio: 2400 men at work in one of the big rolling mill companies. The workers arrive at the steel mill. Steel processing. Santa Monica, California: Men and women report for work at the Douglas Aircraft Plant. They work on a tight schedule for the new type Army torpedo and bombing planes. Men work on various parts of the aircraft. Chicago, Illinois: The Atlas Brewing Company, a huge brewery and bottling works where the production has been speeded to almost 30,000 bottles of beer an hour to meet a surge of demand following the passing of the Volstead Act allowing 3.2 beer (3.2% alchohol), near the end of prohibition in America. Beer Bottles move on conveyor belts. The bottles are filled, packed in crates and readied for transportation.
Depicts services of the mission church in the southern appalachians led by Lutheran missionary Kenneth G. Killinger. Map depicting growth of churches in southern Virginia and northern Tennessee and North Carolina, also the Konnarock Training School, and the Iron Mountain Boys' School. View of Killinger driving on mountain roads, into a more rural area, crossing a primitive footbridge and visiting a sick girl in a rural mountain home of Smyth County. He offers to take her to his health clinic since no doctors are local. He carries the girl out to the 1930s sedan that is waiting. View of the girl being carried into the clinic, (possibly located in Smyth County on the Killinger farm in the Mill Stone area, north of Attaway. Possibly the nurse standing by is Ms. M.L. Crosby). The girl smiling in bed in the clinic. Image of a $100 bank check drawn on the First National Bank of Zanesville Ohio. It is made out to the Killinger Mountain Clinic Fund and signed by The Luther League Synod of Ohio.
Future Project Mercury astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton undergoes psychological and stress test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Astronaut undergoes a treadmill test. Subject walks at a constant rate on a moving treadmill which is elevated one degree each minute. The test continues until heart beat reaches 180 beats per minute.
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