A girl wearing an apron and a head band, rings a dinner bell, and children in groups, by age, file into a wooden open porch dining room in a camp-like area, surrounded by plants and trees. Other girls, wearing headbands, appear to be monitors. The children stand at their respective tables, on which food is served, and say grace in unison, before sitting down to eat. Views of the children eating at different tables. (There appear to be adults in another part of the complex, in the background. )
View of a man, stepping over railroad tracks as he carries a shovel of rocky earth. A 1940 Ford sedan drives along a road and past the camera. View of several men with shovels on a rail line in a ditch down below the road level. View from the rail line, to ledge above. Men wielding picks and shovels to clear walls of earth and stone and provide greater space along the rail line. Some workers wear bandanas over their faces to protect from the powdery earth. A supervisor standing with them wears a first aid kit on his hip. It is labeled "USNYA." U.S. Army troops in trucks drive along a main street, followed by a large caterpillar tractor, as local citizens watch from the sides of the road. Sign on chain link fence displays Army Air Forces logo and identifies Losey Field. Trucks roll past behind the fence. Men continuing work loading sandy soil into wheel barrows and dumping it to side of the work area. Local young boys, watching the activity, laugh when they realize they are being photographed. License plate on truck, with National Defense sign affixed above it. The truck is filled with young men workers, who climb down and walk along a road, carrying tools over their shoulders. Two of them are seen chopping at the base of an obstacle with picks. Workers walking in and out of airfield gate and trucks driving through, as a flight of three Army Air Forces P-36 aircraft fly overhead
A girl gets her blood pressure checked at National Youth Administration hospital in Puerto Rico. She donates blood at NYA blood bank. A sick child receives blood.
WC-121N of U.S. Navy Early Warning Squadron Four (VW-4) starts engines, taxis out, and takes off from the U.S. Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Aerial view of the aircraft in flight. The film title,"Hurricane Hunters," and credits appear. A VW-4 crew is seen bracing themselves inside a WC-121N aircraft as it encounters turbulence on a mission.
The Aurora 7 space capsule on a flat bed trailer truck, at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, Puerto Rico, after having been recovered at sea. The capsule is offloaded with a crane, placed into a steel cradle dolley, and then rolled onto the ramps and into the cargo hold of a C-124 transport aircraft, for flight back to Cape Canaveral.
Hispanic businesses of Harlem, New York City around 1940. Signs in Spanish on stores and shops of community from Cuba and Puerto Rico, along 5th Avenue in Harlem, New York City, including "El Siglo" books and perfumes store, and the "Casa Siegel" furniture, record, and electronics store at 1393 5th Avenue, New York City, near the corner of 115th Street (owned by Sidney Siegel). Exterior marquee of the "Hispano" movie theater. View of the storefront for the "C. Mediavilla Licores " liquor store. A resident leans out of a window above shops. View of the "Garcia & Pena" clothing store at 1357 5th Avenue, New York City.