U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the conclusion of his nomination acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia at the Convention Hall, during the 1936 Presidential campaign. Band playing in the background. Posters of President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner on the stage. Roosevelt speaking with Democratic Senate leader Joseph Robinson of Arkansas, after the speech. Roosevelt also conferring with his running mate, Vice-President John N. Garner. The microphones are still on, so the conversation of Roosevelt and those around him can be heard slightly. Also seen is California Senator William Gibbs McAdoo speaking with Roosevelt. The future President wipes his brow with his handkerchief. He turns to his left and says to Missouri Senator James A. Reed, "Jim, get the band to play Auld Lang Syne again" which the band does. Views of the men and women delegates in the convention hall, waving their various state signs.
U.S. Government film documents cotton farming practices in southern states Texas, Mississippi, Alabama in the United States. Protection of developing cotton fruit from its arch-enemy boll weevil. A boll weevil eating up a cotton fruit. Farmers sprays a protective Calcium Arsenide pesticide in the cotton farms in night hours. Farmer on his mule cart, rides across the farm.
United States President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speakers recognize College President Franc L. McCluer and Missouri state Governor Phil M. Donnelly. President Truman praises Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill addresses the assembled intellects and dignitaries at the meeting in his "Sinews of Peace" address. Truman says Churchill "Is a great Englishman. But he's half American." During this famous speech which became known as the "Iron Curtain speech," Churchill thanks the college for giving him an honorary degree. He describes the times as "anxious and baffling." He says the U.S. "stands at the pinnacle of world power" and that it has an "awe-inspiring accountability to the future." With a "sense of dutydom, and anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement... Opportunities here now, clear and shining for both our countries."
A crowd of men ,women and children stands along the roads waiting for a glimpse of the motorcade carrying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman to Westminster College, where Churchill later delivers his famous "Iron Curtain speech." Workers inside an office. Inside a moving U.S. Army signal corps vehicle A man talks on telephone while a photographer takes photo. Crowd of civilians walks towards a building. View of a Pullman car at the train station, and distant view of the dignitaries departing from the train in their motorcade.
Documentary from U.S. Department of the Interior, about truck manufacturing at the General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan. An automobile drives away from a house carrying two passengers. In contrast, a truck is seen being filled with earth by a steam shovel.It drives away from the construction site carrying a heavy load. The loaded truck backs up to another construction site where earth is needed and prepares to dump its load. A parking lot filled with parked automobiles at an industrial plant. In contrast, trucks are seen moving along a highway, continuously at work. Men in materials laboratory subject a sample of steel rod to a torsion test.They twist it to the breaking point, in a testing machine.
Launching of Freighter Henry Ford II by the Ford Motors Company, United States. Men look down from the bow of Freighter Henry Ford II. Other men stand near it on dock. Freighter launched, drags into seawater. U.S. National flag on the ship. Sea waves rise to the deck of ship. Spectators on land watch the launch.
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