Rise of America as a nation and President Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to the cause. President Roosevelt addresses a large gathering (This appears to be at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas on September 22, 1912, during his campaign for the Bull Moose Party nomination.) Narrator describes Roosevelt's programs for conservation of natural resources. Scenes of logging and forestry operations. Men chopping trees with axes. Timber felled. Logs in a waterway being readied for saw mill.
United States Marines at work around an equipment while on their way to invade Tarawa Island in Pacific Theater during World War II. A motor launched from hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) and wounded loaded onto it. USS Solace anchored in harbor off shore Tarawa. Wounded marines lowered down the side of an unidentified ship. A captain giver orders over a megaphone on flying bridge of the ship. Signalman sends blinker signal. LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) underway in the sea.
United States Marines dressed in invasion uniform on board an invasion ship heading to Tarawa, Kiribati during World War II. Marine reads orders to a group. Marines chock 50 cal. Water cooled machine guns on board the ship. Marines set up tripods for machine guns two men in the background set up machine guns. Men break down equipment and walk off with it.
American women in the labor force of the United States. Working conditions for women in industries. A girl looks for a job in newspaper columns. She gets a job but proves to be a misfit. Male foreman on assembly line fires her from the job. Same woman shown in a job interview conducted upfront to assess skills and match the woman candidate to the right job. Two women in late 1920's and early 1930's fashions seated in an office for the job interview. Female hiring manager interviews the woman applicant. Early telephone on desk. The job seeker is shown in a factory assembly line job to which she has been matched. She smiles as she works at a factory machine. Foremen or manager men stop by her work area and remark on how well suited she is to the job.
Allied artillery being moved alongside a railroad track in France during World War 1. Two officers stand on the track and watch Holts tractors pull heavy field guns. American soldiers wearing campaign hats pose with a heavy field gun. A soldier points out at a name painted on a gun barrel reading: 'Kaiser-Kisser'.
Holts tractors being unloaded from the freighter "Anglo-Mexican" at port of Bordeaux, France, during World War 1. Crane unloading the tractors as port crews guide them onto railroad flat cars. A tractor pulling a rail car with two other tractors loaded on it. Tractors being driven and lined up at the ordnance yard. A railroad train carrying war materiel passing through the ordnance yard. Holts tractors being put through testing maneuvers at the yard.
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