SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve ) being inspected in the United States. SPARS in uniform march in squad. They measure the distance with hands and stand in formation. SPARS officer and U.S. Coast Guard officers salute each other. SPARS stand in formation. The Cost Guard officer inspects SPARS. The CG officer is escorted by SPARS officer. SPARS officer speaks to the CG officer. She salutes and both of them walk. SPARS stand in attention and an officer salutes.
Testing of a new propeller in Bremerton, Washington. View of the newly developed propeller for the U.S. Navy. A professor of Washington University, the inventor of the propeller, beside the device. View of the blades of the propeller, changing the pitch of which changes the course of the ship. A landing craft on which the propeller is tested. The landing craft moving forward on the water. The professor with another man on the craft. The craft turning the direction by changing the pitch of the blades. Men beside the propeller.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 175th press conference in Washington DC, United States. One of the pressmen present at the conference asks the President if he could give his reaction to the House Committee testimony dealing with fixed TV quiz shows. The President says that he shares American general reaction of bewilderment that people could conspire to confuse and deceive American people. He says that as soon as he heard about it he asked the Justice Department to see whether there were any laws violated and what they could do and whether they should propose any new laws. The President says that the Justice Department tells him that it would give its conclusion soon. The Federal Trade Commission has moved into it since this seems to be deceitful advertising and they seem to have some function in correcting it. The President also says that everybody was astonished and dismayed when they heard about it and he thinks that the producers, performers and the actors and the public would be satisfied only when the mess is cleared up. The pressmen take down notes during the conference.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 175th press conference in Washington DC, United States. One of the pressmen asks the President that a note delivered to the Cuban Government had a discussion on the menace of communism. He asked the President as to why it was included in the note. The President says that he thinks Communism to be a very obvious subject to bring up whenever there is a troubled area where it might take hold. Everybody knows that the Communists like to fish in troubled waters and there are certainly troubled waters in Cuba. He says that he thinks it wouldn't have been right if anything had not been mentioned to call attention to the seriousness of the Communist menace.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 175th press conference in Washington DC, United States. President Eisenhower stands in front of a microphone before the newsmen during the press conference. One of the press women asks the President if he agrees to the internationalizing of the Panama Canal and whether he was considering building another canal in that area and if they did would they be able to hold it. Pressmen seated at the conference. The President says that the second question takes a lot of study but for the previous 14 years he has been in favor of building another canal, but that was something that he shall not recommend. Regarding the internationalizing of the Panama Canal he says that it is something he would not even think of at that moment. He says that they have got a treaty with Panama, the provisions of which have been obeyed and they have had a model relationship with Panama for the last 50 years. He says that he believes that a particular incident should not become a reason for breaking a relationship that has worked so well. View of the pressmen talking. The President talking to the officials and the pressmen.
The Italian Campaign of World War II. U.S. Army jeeps and trucks passing through a farmyard in Italy. A wooden structure in view. A radio operator in a radio jeep speaking into a microphone. A soldier standing beside the jeep. The soldier moves away. Radio equipment in the jeep. Another soldier seated beside the radio operator. The operator seated at the steering wheel and speaking over a radio.
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