Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A technician, preparing to enter radiation area, dons foot protectors. A technician wears protective gear and suit inside inflated plastic tunnel. Another technician, wearing a protective mask, puts on gloves. A technician crawls out of an inflated plastic tunnel from a radiation zone. A health physics technician monitors him, for radiation, with a hand held instrument. A technician, in man-shaped end of the inflated plastic tunnel, picks up a box and works in a laboratory. A technician crawls through the plastic tunnel to the man-shaped end. The back of his protective gear reads 'SWP' (Special Work Permit).
Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A technician in suit puts on foot protection and cap. He wears a respirator mask. He enters an inflated plastic tunnel in a laboratory. The tunnel is inflated and collapsed several times to demonstrate how it works. The technician crawls inside the tunnel. The back of his protective gear reads 'SWP' (Special Work Permit). He reaches the man-shaped end of the inflated plastic tunnel and stands. He is able to see clearly and works in the laboratory. He crawls back out of the plastic tunnel and is monitored for radiation by a health physics technician using a hand-held radiation detector and measurement device.
USAF Protective Equipment Specialist and pilot come out of a building at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas. Sign outside the building reads: "Category 2 Restricted Area." Both men then leave in a USAF (United States Air Force) Divco truck. U-2 being serviced on flight line. Flight surgeon giving pilot preflight physical. Airman checking helmet and MC-3A partial pressure suit. Pilot climbing into the cockpit of the airplane. Crew Chiefs briefing Pilot on Form 781 Aircraft write-ups.
Rehabilitation of mentally disabled in the U.S. A mentally disabled woman sews. A mentally disabled man drills holes in a cardboard piece. A man chisels wood. A child on a floor. A woman kneels behind it. Mr Francis Kelley, Superintendent, Mansfield Training School, Connecticut speaks about severely disabled children. A lady with a severely mentally disabled child in a tub provides him physical therapy. Several children in a cafeteria. Some children and a woman seated at a table having their food. Three children with headphones seated around a table. A lady stands near the table. Several physiotherapists work with mentally disabled children. A speech therapist works with a boy. A man with a boy. Some children and a teacher in a classroom. A man assembles a special chair. A mentally disabled child sits on ground. A woman kneels near him. The woman makes a sound with a toy. The child reacts and tries to take the toy.
While World War 1 was already underway in Europe, before the United States Air Service began to build up. Two U.S. DeHavilland DH-4 aircraft taking off. A formation of DH-4s in flight. A DH-4 upside down on the ground with soldiers all around it, including one sitting on a rock. Airplanes attacking a barrage balloon aloft, which burns and plummets to earth trailing dark black smoke. A candidate United States pilot undergoing physical testing. He is placed in a spinning chair and spun at high speed. Another pilot candidate performs a visual test with an array of lights on a panel being lit. Prospective Army pilots in U.S. Army uniforms marching and on a flight line with JN-4 Jenny training aircraft. Cadet turns propeller of a Curtiss JN-4 training airplane and the engine starts. Formation of DH-4 aircraft in flight. Lumberjacks in American northwest area of Oregon or Washington state felling a giant spruce tree after cutting it with a two man saw in the Cascade mountain forests. Massive Logs being transported by railroad to logging mills for eventual use in airplane factories. Men and many women war production workers busy working at an American airplane fabricating plant or factory during World War 1.
Motorcade of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at Tampa De Soto Exposition in Key West, Florida. Secret service men walk behind President's car and a man opens a door for President Roosevelt. Navy officials gathered on docks of harbor. President Roosevelt speaks into microphones at the event, commenting on United States values and positions and saying: "We seek no territorial expansion. We are not covetous of our neighbor's goods. We shall cooperate in every proposal honestly put forward to limit armaments. We abhor the appeal to physical force, except to repulse aggression. He continues, "...the institutions of democracy, government with the consent of the governed, must and shall be maintained." A small Navy boat tender with the President and Navy personnel on board. (Event was several months before invasion of European countries by Germany in World War 2.)
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