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Flashbacks show USS Wakefield being christened as SS Manhattan, and famous passengers aboard in the early 1930s
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield during World War II) in the United States. Flashbacks show the USS Manhattan being christened by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt on 5th December 1931. It is seen being launched from New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden New Jersey. View of maiden voyage on 10th August 1932, with passengers boarding the ship. It leaves a port for her first trip to Ireland, England, Germany and France. Couples dance aboard the deck of the SS Manhattan. Passengers including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Walker, Glenn Cunningham, and aviator Douglas Corrigan ("Wrong Way Corrigan") seen aboard the ship.
Architects dressed as buildings at Beaux Arts Ball.
Architects of important landmarks dressed as their designed buildings at Beaux- Arts Ball. They include, left to right, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building, Arthur J.Arwine as a low pressure heating boiler, A. Stewart as the Fuller Building and Joseph Freelander as the Museum of the City of New York. They each wore a helmet-like construction of the building they had designed (23 January 1931).
Train collision at Readville Massachusetts in the United States
Collision of New York bound express passenger railraod train with local train at Readville, Massachusetts. The trains collided at the crossing derailing the cars of opposite train and leaving 50 people injured. Low visibility due to snow blamed for disaster.1931.
Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, monitor returns during night of 1940 U.S. National Elections
Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, on election night, November 5, 1940, gathered to watch returns displayed on the Times Building. View of people in crowd, illuminated by search light beam as they cling to a street sign post. Behind them can be seen lights of the Rialto Theater and various other neon signs.Men are seen on elevated platform, maneuvering search lights to shine on various parts of the crowd. A sign showing Uncle Sam and message: "No third term." People in crowd milling about. Marquee of New York movie Theater. Mounted police thinning out the crowd in places. Moving lights on Times building report results from Hudson County, New York. And they spell out:"Roosevelt leading in States having a total electoral vote of 442." "McNary concedes." "Wilkie retired at 1:30 AM with announcement he would have no further statement until he awakened." Part of another announcement reads:"Republican leader refuses to concede election."
Montage of World War 2 scenes from all theaters of Allied operations and scenes of the U.S.A.
Peaceful scenes of pre-war England, showing a church with sheep grazing on its lawn, and a college building with ivy growing on the walls. In contrast, explosion and results of German bombing is shown, with buildings collapsing and ruined from the German blitz over England. A long line of Chinese soldiers marching along the Great Wall of china. Shadows of three Japanese bombers flying over Chinese landscape. On May 4, 1942, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek decorates American fliers who made the first attack on Tokyo in World War 2. Wearing a Chinese decoration around his neck, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who led that raid by U.S. B-25 bombers from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, poses with Madame Chiang and others of his group. Scenes of Moscow, Soviet Russia, including a T-70 light tank moving rapidly along a city street. A Soviet Petlyakov Pe-2 dive bomber taking off in a snow storm. U.S. troops on a halftrack in North Africa. British artillerymen firing a 25 pounder in the desert. Glimpses of smoke rising from enemy strikes at cities in England, Russia, and China. Scenes of destruction from bombing. Brief street scenes of unharmed and intact towns and cities in the United States, including brief New York City scene of pedestrians and traffic in Times Square. Defense workers in America going to work at Ranger Aircraft Engines factory (later part of Fairchild Aircraft and Engine Corporation), and a star flag showing war service by worker families. Farmers in Western U.S. harvesting grain. Railroad trains and river barges carrying harvest from U.S. farms. Herds of cattle and sheep being raised for the war effort in Western U.S. Aerial view of orchards and farms in America. A mining bucket filled with iron ore. Barge carrying the ore. A steel mill in operation. Scrap iron being recycled. View from production floor of U.S. bomber aircraft being built in a defense plant. Countless freight cars in a railroad marshaling yard at a port, where a tug boat and a freighter are seen in the water. War materiel piled up at the port. A convoy of supply ships underway.
Henry Kaiser ignites a blast furnace at a new steel mill tooled to support the construction of Victory ships in the U.S.
American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser ignites a blast furnace at a new steel mill on the Pacific Coast during World War II . The new steel mill at a Kaiser shipyard. Henry J. Kaiser ignites a blast furnace at a new steel mill tooled to support the construction of Victory ships. People gathered at the inauguration of the steel mill. A man at work. A view of the steel mill.
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