A field grade U.S. Air Force officer at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda, is seated in an office. Behind him on the wall is a large map of the Atlantic ocean with concentric rings on it, centered at Bermuda. He receives a paper report and makes a phone call. An airman at a communications center receives teletype messages and leaves to deliver them. Scene shifts to a flight engineer sitting at his panel aboard a WB-29A aircraft of the 53rd Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Hurricane Hunters). The WB-29 is experiencing significant turbulence. An officer briefing a group of Air Force officers and airmen. View of 53rd Squadron area on ramp at Kindley Air Force Base. An officer briefing aircrews. A synoptic chart is mounted on front of his podium. A map of the entire Atlantic ocean and environs covers a wall behind him. To his left is a map of the South Atlantic with Bermuda highlighted at the top. a triangular air route is depicted on it. It is labeled: "Gull Hotel."
An ice storm in Chicago, Illinois. A building in the far background. A statue of a soldier on the ground covered with snow. Bent trees due to the snow in the area. A sign board reads: 'No South bound traffic under penalty of arrest'. A jeep driving across the area.
A documentary on a tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas. Clouds in the sky. Warm air from the south overruns the cold air from the north. Rain falling. Houses in the area. A tornado in the area. A black cloud rising up. Aerial view of rubbled area.
Flooding in aftermath of Hurricane Beulah in South Texas, United States. An area submerged in water. View of the Nueces River completely over its banks and flooding a massive area. Aerial view of flooded land under water. Officers discussing about the flooding. An officer talking over a phone. Aerial view of flood waters having broken through a dam and sending flood waters into Harlingen through the Arroyo Colorado. People laying sand bags to control flooding. Rescue work being carried on. People traveling in a motor boat to stranded residents in Harlingen Texas. U.S. Army helicopters hovering over the area to evacuate the Texas State Tuberculosis Hospital. The hospital patients being treated by doctors and nurses. Aerial view of the flooded area in Texas and in Mexico. Food and medical assistance being provided to the people by helicopter airlift. People lined up outside a building. The doctors and the nurses treating the wounded.
Slate says "After Jack saw a South Sea Island picture made near Fort Lauderdale, the effect startled his whole family." View of a sandy beach. A young boy enters the frame dressed in a girl's hula costume with grass skirt, lei, and flowers in his hair, as if he is from Hawaii. He dances a hula dance on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
A film on manufacture of dynamite in the United States. Nitrate of soda is brought from South America and is used in crystalline form as an ingredient of dynamite. Men working for the manufacture of dynamite. A ship at a port. Men unloading sacks from the ship. Wood pulp is also used as a raw material in the manufacture of dynamite. The other material used is the nitrate of ammonia. Nitrate of soda is converted into nitric acid. It is dumped into huge retorts and is treated with sulphuric acid. Nitric acid vapors are condensed to a liquid in tiers of water-cooled glass pipes. Nitric acid is used to make nitroglycerin which is one of the most powerful explosives. Exterior of a building. Mixed nitric and sulphuric acid is run into a nitrator and refined glycerin is slowly added. The operator watches the thermometer as the chemical reaction releases an enormous amount of heat. An explosion can occur if the heat is not carefully controlled. He also watches the charge through a sight glass. Nitroglycerin and waste acids flow from the nitrator into a lead-lined trough which leads to a separator. The nitroglycerin rises to the top as the mixture settles. Then it is washed and led into storage tanks. It is transported to a dynamite mixing house in a rubber-lined and rubber-tired cart. Men working inside the building. A proper amount of the dry ingredients is poured into a mixing machine. Nitroglycerin is added to it. The mixture is further processed under revolving rubber-shod wheels.
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