The United States on guard at the beginning of World War II. The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington DC. U.S. troops and Boy Scouts marching in review. New York City: Children in a park, rivers, farm, fields, baseball and football games in NY stadiums, services in St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Statue of Liberty and the U.S. flag. The voice of Kate Smith singing 'God Bless America'.
From a documentary film about the lack of electricity in rural areas of the United States. Man milking a cow. Herding cattle. Views of rolling hill pasture land. Boy exiting outhouse. Barrels of milk being loaded on truck for sale, but due to lack of refrigeration, farmers face rejections of some milk in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Man collects milk in bucket, fills the calibrated barrels and tries to keep them cool. Men load barrels on to a truck. At a dairy, men off load milk barrels and separate the rejected milk barrels. A paper with number of rejected barrels shown to the man. Pigs drink rejected milk.
A film titled 'Iowa farmer wins U.S. Corn husking title' shows people gathered in large numbers to witness the United States corn husking competition in Licking county in Ohio. Carl Carlson from Iowa wins title by husking 1,472.75 lbs. in eighty minutes.
Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.
The working of the weather bureau in the United States. The U.S. engineers and members of the weather bureau work in close cooperation for weather forecasting. They coordinate their activities for gathering the data relating to weather. A map locates various places. Animated map depicts the route and the method of their working. A woman talking on phone. The interior of the office of the weather bureau. The employees working in the office. They work for the collection, recording and dissemination of the information. The engineers working near a dam. Men, aboard a special boat working to adjust dam gate settings. They work for the collection of information and weather forecasting as the Ohio River level rises. Smoke from the stacks of the ship anchored nearby. View of the Chris Greene paddle wheel steamboat (sternwheeler) underway near a a dock area on the Ohio River, on route to Cincinnati.
The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad in the United States, running between Michigan and Ohio. A locomotive pulling a train of coal cars comes down a track. A sign on the cars read 'Ford'. The railroad was owned by Ford and its locomotives were always kept in tip top condition. (This train was possibly coming from the Wellston, Ohio coal fields.)
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