"Smiles" O' Timmons, who has lost and arm and a leg, climbs a ladder at the Annual Firemen's Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then performs stunt in which he dives from a height of 100 feet into a small pool containing water only 4 feet deep.
Steel workers arriving for work as the new Carnegie-llinois steel company plant (subsidiary of U.S. Steel) opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Officials inspect the plant. First operations of rolling hot steel begin. Workers entering plant. View of hot steel being rolled out and cooled.
Start of the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive in World War 1. United States Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels opens the Liberty Loan drive, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On this occasion he delivers a speech in front of a large gathering. He also reviews a parade of 10,000 mill workers. Mill workers loaded in trucks and other vehicles move past people in a street. A Naval band plays at the parade. Mill workers carrying flags and banners march. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Robert Sargent Shriver, Director of Peace Corps delivers a speech at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shriver speaks how the Jewish Peace Corps volunteers have been serving in four Muslim countries. He also highlights the role Peace Corps have played in poor countries. He talks about racial discrimination and reveals that 80 percent of poor people in America are Whites. He appeals for personal commitment from people to remove poverty, the way Peace Corps have been doing in various countries.
Cars and shops near the intersection of Master Street and Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, during the 1964 Philadelphia riots, also called the 1964 Columbia Avenue riots, in an era of racial tensions and civil rights struggles. People loot shops. Men and women take out articles from a shop. Broken window panes of a shop. A mannequin dummy on a road in front of a damaged garment shop. Exteriors of the damaged shops. A damaged car. A man walks through ruins of shops. Policeman attempts to clear looters from a shop.
An iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for use in New York City's Empire State Building. A huge ingot is brought to required temperature in a soaking pit at blooming mill. The ingot is picked up and put into a trolley. It is rolled into a belt and rolling operation starts. It is reduced to slab and taken for reheating.
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