Aerial view of the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, underway on the surface and then submerging. View of helmsman below in the Nautilus. Aerial view of frozen arctic ocean with deep crevasses, as narrator mentions the Nautilus traveling submerged, beneath the North Pole on August 3, 1958. The boat's Captain, Commander William R. Anderson, is seen in uniform. More views of the Nautilus moving on the surface, including one with crew members standing on deck. Next, a newspaper headline is shown, announcing Alaska's statehood. Small boy and girl sitting in the grass holding a flag displaying map of Alaska and reading: "Alaska 49th State." Automobile traffic driving into Anchorage, Alaska. Banner stretched across the road reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Pedestrians jam the sidewalks as the city celebrates its new statehood. A float displaying a huge moose has sign on its side reading: "49th. Hey Texas. Now I'm the biggest Bull..." Young Alaskans ride in a convertible automobile. A huge 48-star American flag covers the front of a building. It has a large extra star appended to it. Closeup of the flag.
Scale model tests of proposed Boeing Dyna-Soar in the United States. Views of the earth showing the flight path of the Dyna-Soar and a launching at Cape Canaveral. A table-top model of Boeing proposed Dyna-Soar airborne vehicle with multi-stage rockets on a launch pad and gantry towers. A flight capsule and a crew accommodations display board and a scale model of proposed Boeing Dyna-Soar turning on a pedestal in the foreground. A drawing shows the proposed cockpit configuration for the Boeing Dyna-Soar vehicle. A man in a pressure suit seated in the cockpit of full scale mockup of the Boeing proposed Dyna-Soar. A drawing shows various stages of proposed capsule separation. Wind tunnel capsule separation test using scale models. Boeing Dyna-Soar wind tunnel model being held by a technician. The technician places the Boeing model in the Arnold engineering hot shot tunnel. Views of the model of Boeing Dyna-Soar under a bank of quartz lamps during a structural heat test. The model nose cone is heated by multi-gas jet device. A Boeing DS-1 model enters the wind tunnel. A drawing shows general arrangement of the DS-1 Dyna-Soar booster and glider. Full scale mockup of Boeing DS-1 glider mockup on display.
Rise of America as a nation and President Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to the cause. President Roosevelt addresses a large gathering (This appears to be at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas on September 22, 1912, during his campaign for the Bull Moose Party nomination.) Narrator describes Roosevelt's programs for conservation of natural resources. Scenes of logging and forestry operations. Men chopping trees with axes. Timber felled. Logs in a waterway being readied for saw mill.
American women in the labor force of the United States. Working conditions for women in industries. A girl looks for a job in newspaper columns. She gets a job but proves to be a misfit. Male foreman on assembly line fires her from the job. Same woman shown in a job interview conducted upfront to assess skills and match the woman candidate to the right job. Two women in late 1920's and early 1930's fashions seated in an office for the job interview. Female hiring manager interviews the woman applicant. Early telephone on desk. The job seeker is shown in a factory assembly line job to which she has been matched. She smiles as she works at a factory machine. Foremen or manager men stop by her work area and remark on how well suited she is to the job.
Various American equipment and weapons of World War I. Incendiary hand grenades used by Allies during World War I displayed in United States.
American soldiers in an Army passenger truck, ride into a field at an Army base in the United States, during World War 1. They step from the truck, remove boxes of ammunition, and a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. They set up the machine gun and prepare to fire it. Scene shifts to closeup of a soldier back at the truck, opening its compartments and checking the contents.
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