U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts Research project in the United States. Hanging sign reads as 'Fernon Experimental Forest, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Forest'. Building of Agriculture Experiment Station. Plaque on wall reads as "United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Center". Farmers use farm products in their farms. Aircraft delivers chemical spray on crops to control insects and diseases. Cattle in stock yard. View of farmer's land. Crops in farms, farmers standing in the background. They receive demonstrations of farming methods from personnel of USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). USDA provides pamphlets, publications of marketing research, books of agriculture and market news services to help farmers and increase production.
U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel inspect food products and help in transportation in the United States. Books of United States Code. A man reads book. Exterior of factory. Food grains on conveyor belt. USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) personnel inspect food grains. USDA personnel inspects animal skins. A USDA personnel administers injection on calf to control animal disease. USDA personnel check qualities of pineapple. They help farmers and exporters by shipment of agriculture commodities. Food grains are stored in cargo holds. Sacks of food products are hoisted by cranes and placed aboard ship for transportation. American school children take food in lunch program of school, distributed by charitable and public institutions.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson inaugurates airmail service as it commences in the U.S. A Curtis JN-4 airmail airplane parked on the Polo field, in Washington, DC.. Van of United States Air Mail Service arrives. Mail is loaded into the airplane. Pilots Lieutenant George L. Boyle and Major Reuben H. Fleet standing beside the airplane conferring over a map. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, and Post-master General Albert Sidney Burleson inspect the airmail airplane that will carry mail to New York. . A man shows first official piece of airmail. He and his wife greets pilot. Wilson talks with pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet . Pilot George L. Boyle gets into airplane. Airplane takes off. Airmail airplane piloted by lieutenant Webb leaves New York from Belmont Park and takes off. The airplane stops at Philadelphia to pick up more mail. Mail is loaded into the airplane. The airplane takes off. It arrives in Washington. Mail is unloaded from the airplane. Pilot gets out of the airplane.
Evaluation of Japanese bomb-carrying balloons sent across the Pacific to the United States by Japan during World War 2. Gun camera footage of American fighter planes from Aleutian Island bases firing at Japanese balloons en route to the Pacific coast of the United States. A balloon bomb which reached the shores of the United States. but did not explode is examined by United States Army soldiers. They unfold the rice paper parachute portion of the balloon and examine its construction. Close-up views of the balloon control mechanism are shown, including a circular frame that would hold anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Details of the wet cell battery and ballast weights are shown, including barometric aneroid switches which would operate to release ballast from simple hooks, as needed, to control balloon altitude. Narrator indicates it is believed the main purpose of the bombs was to start brush and forest fires.
Worker brushes off a pair of horses and barrels of beer. Worker transport barrels of beer. View of Broadway in New York City. Party celebrating the legalization of beer and end of Prohibition in ballrooms in New York. Couples ballroom dance as musicians play music. Lavish celebrations by wealthy citizens. Celebrations in Chicago at end of Prohibition. Nurses walking. Workmen walking. Various Americans seen working in various industries manufacturing automobiles, hats. Woman operates machine. Man working on rotating machine. Workers welding. Men digging ditch. View of steam shovel bucket scooping up dirt. United States soldiers, likely at West Point, in regalia march with American flag. Warship at sea. Flag of United States. View of U.S Capitol dome. Image of smiling Franklin Roosevelt framed by U.S. Capitol dome, with stars motif.
Italian prisoners of war (POWs) volunteer for the Italian Service Units, as part of the Engineers Corps. in the United States during World War II. Italian POWs take an outdoor basic English class at a camp in North Carolina. A United States soldier serves as their teacher. Blackboard is written with “English Ciao”. A prisoner of war writes on the portable blackboard. Italian Service Units part of the U.S. Engineers Corps raise their hands. A prisoner of war volunteer salutes and shake hands with a United States Engineers Corps officer. ISUs are wearing American uniforms with the Italian Service Unit insignia (“Italy”) on brassard worn on the left sleeve and stitched onto the standard garrison cap. An Italian Service Unit volunteer uses a jackhammer to crush a block of stone. Two volunteers sawing a log. Other volunteers learn carpentry. Italian Service Units marching and stand at attention on the field inside a camp.
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