King Saud during a visit to Washington DC. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon hosts a luncheon for the King, at the Washington Hay- Adams hotel (800 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20006, United States). United States Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. is in the receiving line. Reception in the Saudi Arabia Embassy. Vice President Nixon and Mrs. Pat Nixon meet the king. Diplomats also meet King Saud at the Saudi Arabian embassy. Photographers take pictures. An Arab staff member holds a sword. Mrs. Janet Dulles, wife of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, shakes hand with the King. United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, George Wadsworth talks to the King. A friend from the United States Air Force shakes hands with him. Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, shakes hands with the king. Children of Saudi Ambassador, Sheik Abdullah al-Khayyal, are brought in to meet their monarch. The King holds a child.
King Saud of Saudi Arabia on Destroyer USS Willis A. Lee (DD-929) in New York Harbor. King Saud talks to an unidentified civilian. A member of the Royal Party holds his son, Prince Mansur, in his arms. King Saud and the Royal Party stand at the railing of the destroyer, as it docks at its berth in New York. They disembark and are greeted by diplomat Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Preparation of Miltown tablets by Wallace Laboratories in the United States. (Miltown was the brand name for Meprobamate, the the first widely used psychotropic drug in America). A sign on a machine reads 'Miltown Tablets'. Powdered medicine mixed in a container in a medical laboratory. Containers with attached pipes in the factory. A man looks at the containers. Fine mixture in a container. A production machine from which powdered medicine comes out. Women wearing apron and gloves in a laboratory. They are filling the tablets or pills in the bottles. Empty bottles on a machine are being filled with tablets. The bottles are seen being packed. Cartons of the Miltown tablets on conveyor belts for shipment all over the world. A globe of the world rotates to illustrate the global distribution of the medicine.
Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine in Washington DC. Dr. Jonas Salk and U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower with other delegates on stage. Men take pictures. President Eisenhower speaks over the microphone and tells Dr. Salk, among other things, that he has no words adequate, to express the thanks of Americans and others throughout the world, who will benefit from Dr. Salk's contribution to the eradication of Poliomyelitis.
Guns used for training of Army Airmen at Kelly Field in Texas. Army Airmen putting machine gun in DH-4 De Havilland. Gunner firing a pair of mounted machine guns from DH-4 cockpit. Synchronized firing of machine guns through propellers. Firing of cannon mounted in Boeing GA-1 nose cockpit.
The Pulitzer Trophy Race at Mitchel Field in New York. A Curtiss R3C-1 in flight over Mitchel Field. The R3C-1 taxiing after landing. The number 43 painted on its fuselage. U.S. Army Lieutenant Cyrus Bettis in the cockpit of the R3C-1 after it stops. He climbs up and stands in the cockpit. Army airmen stand around him. Lieutenant Bettis sets a new record of 249 miles per hour.
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