Howard Hughes testifies before the "Brewster" Senate Subcommittee, investigating war contracts. He talks about World War 2 contracts involving ordering of aircraft, light aircraft carriers, and the atomic bomb by President Roosevelt, through channels outside normal procurement bureaus. He states that he did not make 15 million dollars of profit on 40 million dollars in war contracts, despite assertions that gave the public that impression. In another comment he says, "If TWA (Trans World Airways) does anything wrong, I get blamed for it. But when TWA does anything right, then I had nothing to do with it. That's like Hollywood. When it's a good picture, Sam Goldwyn made it, but when its a bad picture, Willi Wyler (William Wyler) made it."
'Behind the scene in machine age' Women work at a printing plant in United States along with male workers. Women also work in garment and shoe factories. They work in machine shops and produce finished goods. A woman working in a textile mill.
Emphasizes upon the need to prevent wastage of human effort at industries in United States. Need for governmental initiative to regulate the human wastage. Uncle Sam's animation to depict wastage of human effort.
Emphasizes upon the need to improve the working conditions for women in industries and improving industrial efficiency. Women wrap cigars manually at a factory in United States. Women work on machines to wrap cigars thus improving the efficiency.
Emphasizes upon the need to improve the working conditions for women in industries and improving industrial efficiency. Women manually stuff and stitch automobile cushions at a factory in United States. Women operate machines and cushions being mechanically stitched thus leading to efficiency in production.
Emphasizes upon the need to avoid waste of human skills and talents in industries due to the dawn of machine age in United States. Enlists the problems brought about due to mechanization of industries: loss of job, keeping pace with machines, loss of wages and monotony of work. Due to increase in dial telephone system and a reduction in manual telephone system displaced women workers being given other jobs such as information operators, special operators and switch board attendants. View of telephone switchboard operators and people using rotary telephones, talking on the phone. Close up view of face of a rotary dial telephone "JERome 8901" home location listed. Hand dialing the rotary telephone. A graph shows a decline in the need for human beings at industries due to coming of machine age.
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