Plant biologists working on an experimental peanut farm at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Scientists seek improved strains of peanuts resulting from irradiation of seed. Large sized peanuts are shown resulting from such experimentation. A boy is shown buying such peanuts from a street vendor. The boy opens his eyes wide at the large sized nuts.
View of Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas. Former student, Jefferson Thomas, one of the nine African American students who integrated the school in 1957, is revisiting the school. View of integrated student track and field team practicing.View of the front of the school. Flashback scenes of the "Little Rock Nine," black students trying to enter Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. Police officer keeping back jeering local students. Racial fighting breaks out among people watching the event, and police try to maintain order. African American students unable to enter school while white students enter and police stand by despite federal school integration orders. Scene returns to 1964 briefly and then back to September 27, 1957, when on orders from President Eisenhower, a company of U.S. Army soldiers marches up takes up positions at the school. They set up barricades, maintain order, and provide armed escort for the nine black students entering school. The nine students enter army station wagons and drive to school accompanied by soldiers in an army jeep.Views of people mingling around the school as U.S. Army soldiers stand amongst them.
The ship S.S. Fort Jackson, part of the U.S. emergency fleet in 1929, is destroyed by salvage buyers at Richmond Beach in Washington. Flames and smoke rising as the S.S. Fort Jackson falls to pieces.
A celebration aboard a giant airplane high over New York City, en route to Atlantic City. Interior views of cabin of the airplane, and cockpit, while guests are seated in the plane during flight. They are served refreshments. Aerial view of the city of New York including skyscrapers like the Empire State Building. Aerial view of the George Washington Bridge spanning the Hudson River. British aviators James Mollison and his wife Amy Mollison are among guest honored by famous woman American Aviator Amelia Earhart on the flight. Heavy weight boxing champion Gene Tunney (with bandage on left side of face), artist Howard Chandler Christy and the publisher George Palmer Putnam are also among the guests. Stewardess or flight attendant is seen talking to pilots during flight, and serving drinks to guests. Gene Tunney smiles on receiving a drink.
The banker Edward Bremer tells the story of his kidnapping. He is at his home in Saint Paul in Minnesota. His abductors received a ransom of $200,000 ransom.
Labor strikers crowd around the entrances to a manufacturing plant as National Guardsmen herd strike-breakers (aka "scabs") into the shop New Albany. Women work at sewing machines in the factory. National Guard troops guard the shirt factory. Cars parked in the street. Ambulances carry-off the injured after a clash at another manufacturing plant in Jeffersonville.
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