African American small businesses in the U.S. Drugstore; TV and Radio shop; Mens clothing store; Medical Supply company. An African American pharmacist with a customer in a drug store. African American businesses in Harlem, New York City. Signs : 'Hotel Theresa, Skyline Ballroom', and 'Ray Robinson enterprises'. Former boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson enters the office of his company and discusses business matters with a woman, inside. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Robert Lee Vann and editor-in-chief, Bill Nunn, discuss a weekly edition of their newspaper an office of The Pittsburgh Courier. Their Society editor in her office with members of her staff. A man operating a printing press of the Courier Newspaper. In New York City, views of The Manhattan Empire Linotype School, owned by African American businessman, Edwin Jenkins. Students in the school select type for a manual printing job. An instructor is seen near an advanced linotype machine. Owner, Edwin Jenkins is seen with students in the school. Many men and women students, of different races, seen at machines, learning the trade. Mr. Jenkins conversing with another businessman, in his office.
Agricultural progress in the America during World War II, with increased production to meet wartime needs. Pigs, hogs, and piglets on a farm. Trees in the background. Vehicles pass in front of a pork butcher and processing factory. Truck in front says "HH Green" on side. Sign in background of shot says "Morrell" (this is possibly the John Morrell & Co. Packing Plant in Ottumwa Iowa). Butcher workers with cleavers cut and process pork on moving assembly line. Beef cattle graze on a field. Tractor operated on a farm field. View of beef cattle stockyards at butcher and processing factories for meat. Butcher operations for beef cattle seen on moving assembly line. Farmers harvest feed crops for meat production. A feed shed filled to the top. Farmer harvests sugarcane and drives wagon filled with sugarcane, pulled by horses. Farmer on tractor on a sugarcane field. A tall harvesting machine cuts sugarcane in the field at harvest. Farmer on a sugar beet field. A mechanical seed splitting machine is shown. Farmer holding shafts with sugar beet seeds attached. Sorghum plants are shown and described as a new source of sugar. A man feeds harvested sorghum plants into a pressing machine to extract sorghum liquid for sugar.
Interior of a machine shop. Workers assemble a turbine. They assemble the maneuvering valves. The completed turbines and the reduction gear. A sign reads: '2500 horse power steam turbine engine used in eagle boats, Ford Motor Company'. Turbine and reduction gear ready for shipping. The turbine at work.
Crashing of airplanes in Daytona Beach, Florida. Two army fliers die due to the crash. Crashed planes in a snow covered field. People gather near the crashed planes. Wrecked parts of the planes. Planes parked outside a hangar. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh confers with U.S. Secretary of War Dern on aerial postal system plans in Washington. The President orders rigid restrictions of flying schedules to prevent further fatal accidents.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter underway at a sea. An admiral's flag flutters on the mast of the ship. She has two smoke stacks; appears to be armed with a forward battery of three heavy guns, and carries several amphibious biplane aircraft. View of teletype operators in ship radio room.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing Congress on January 6, 1941, asking for authority to supply war materiel to Britain and allies. Animated map showing streams of war materiel going to china and to European allies. Views of transport ships, Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft with British roundel on them. A U.S. light tank M2; a large artillery barrel; and sacks of goods, being loaded on a ship. View of U.S. Capitol. Lend Lease Act passed. Animated map shows German forces overrunning Yugoslavia and Greece, and attacking Soviet Union. German troops in small boats crossing river to invade. German tanks and artillery operating on the Eastern front. Civilian men and women digging fortifications. Lend lease war materiel being unloaded in Britain, and at Red Sea port for British in Africa.Trucks carrying supplies over the Burma road to China. Lend lease supplies piled up in Murmansk, Russia, and Iran. "Hammer and Sickle 'em" chalked on a shipment.Stevedores rolling large tires.Hitler speaking. Head of Statue of Liberty. Animated illustrations about effects of Axis victory. U.S. Forces entering Greenland and Iceland, with consent of their governments.
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