Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for New York City's Empire State Building construction. American Bridge Company's Plant at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Fabrication for engineering design. They place plates and fix it in frame for drilling. Workers drill cover and wing bearing plates by drill machine. Plates are placed to column shaft. Workers bring down the plates by crane and place it over beam.
Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for construction of the Empire State Building in New York City. American Bridge Company's Plant at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Riveting iron beam. Drill machine rivet C B section of the beam. Worker rivet side web section of the beam with a machine.
Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Empire State Building construction in New York City. American Bridge Company's Plant at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Worker hammers side web section and insert it to iron beam. Double end milling machine finishes column to proper length from both the ends.
Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Empire State Building construction in New York City. American Bridge Company's Plant at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. A man shows parts of finished column with the help of a pointer. Animation shows the assembly of beam parts. Wing plates placed. Placement of cover plates. Side web section insertion. Other small parts assembled on beam. Finished beam carried by a crane and placed on a carrier truck. Workers observe the transfer.
William Penn Way, in the center of Pittsburgh, is jammed with women preparing to participate in the 4th Liberty Loan Drive in that city. Sign for a business establishment, named Thompson's, is seen. In another scene a banner identfying the Naval Recruiting Station, hangs above the crowd. A view looking down from a building overlooking the scene, shows women seated at long tables streching across the street, from curb to curb, for a so-called "Trench Breakfast." Other women move between the lines of tables, to serve. After the breakfast, several speakers stand on the tables and deliver motivating talks to the women, Among those seen are a U.S. Navy Commander; U.S. Army Captain, Walter Richard Flannery (who was decorated with fhe Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in the Battle of the Marne); Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels; and Alexander P. Moore, Publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Leader newspaper. Change of scene shows dense crowd filling street. Bunting decorates some areas and garlands hang high above the crowd, stretched from buildings on one side of the street to the other.e. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Newsreel clip on baseball's July 7, 1959 All-Star Game -- the first of two games played that year. Clip opens with view of the 35,000 fans jammed into PIttsburgh's Forbes Field for the daytime game. With score tied 1-1 in the seventh inning, the Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks (seen in brief closeup) hits a long drive off the left field wall, runs into second for a double. Milwaukee's Del Crandall then singles to score Banks and give the National League a 2-1 lead. Fans stand and cheer as the Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Mazeroski comes to bat. Mazeroski gets hit to left field to score Crandall. In the eighth inning, the Chicago White Sox' Nellie Fox gets a single to ignite a rally. The Baltimore Orioles Gus Triandos hits a double to put American League in front 4-3. But in the bottom of the eighth, hits by Ken Boyer and Hank Aaron tie the game. Then Willie Mays (seen in closeup) hits a long drive just beyond the reach of the center fielder. Forbes Field's ivy-covered outfield wall seen in the shot. Mays' triple scores Aaron to put National League on top 5-4. Brief view of the scoreboard. In the ninth inning, Harvey Kuenn pops up to the end the game.
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