United Nations considers Katanga crisis in a meeting at its Headquarters in New York. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold calls for a resolution for speedy withdrawal of Belgium troops from Katanga in Congo. Officials from Congo seated during the meeting. General Dag Hammarskjold asks the Congo officials to settle the issues among themselves as UN will not interfere with the matter.
Horse Racing at Monmouth Park in New Jersey, United States. Two-year-old horses run on the dirt track. Crowd watch the race from the grandstand. Horse 'Hail to Reason' wins the race. Hail to Reason along with the winning Jockey in the paddock as they wait to receive the prize money.
Us prepares for World War II. United States engineers and war production workers building warships in Brooklyn, New York. Americans prepare for defense as war accelerates in Europe. View of US King (DD-242) sand USS Rodgers (DD-254) at a harbor. War workers entering the shipyard. Engineers work on equipment at Brooklyn Navy yard. Women sew American flags.
Suburban Handicap horse race at Belmont Park, New York. Horses come out of the gates to run on a turf track. Spectators cheer during the race. Colt Eight Thirty wins the 54th running of Suburban handicap. He beats horse named Can't Wait by a length.
Aviator Jimmie Mattern in Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Jimmie Mattern boards the aircraft and takes off for his trip across the Atlantic. Crowd watches as the young Texas pilot takes off.
Professor Pierre Joliot tests uranium disintegration in Columbia University, New York. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter and notes down the readings. He controls the voltage. Joliot uses Geiger-Muller counter with a standard uranium source as placed on GM tube and take it off. A voltage control equipment is shown.
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