Dr. Julio Prestes de Albuquerque, Brazil's new President visits United States. U.S. President Herbert Hoover greets him. A ship arrives at port in New York. President Prestes walks down stairs with officials. He poses. Boat in sea. U.S. and Brazilian Presidents pose at white House in Washington DC.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito calls on U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull In December 1934 to inform that Japan will denounce the Washington Naval Treaty on 1922 which limited the size of the Japanese fleet. A close up of the ambassador Saito. He exits the State, War, and Navy Building (later the Executive Office Building) and gets in a car. Next segment: A female pilot Helen Richey becomes the first woman to fly mail in the United States. Richey stands in front of an aircraft and shakes hand with an official. Richey in the cockpit and the aircraft takes off. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
The tail end of a contingent of U.S. soldiers is seen marching away, along the tracks, after visiting a Red Cross canteen rail car during world war 1. Red Cross women volunteers in white dresses stand in front of a Wabash Railroad car marked with red crosses and a sign reading "Canteen Services." A U.S. Army brass band is playing in the center of the train yard. The Red cross workers step away from their rail car to wave goodbye to the departed troops. Scene shifts to a Red Cross woman handing out, what appear to be photographs, to U.S. soldiers standing in a line with their personal mess kit cups. A waterway is seen behind the line of soldiers. Afterwards, the soldiers assemble and drink their coffee. (Location is likely in the midwest USA.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. A United states B-26 aircraft in flight. F-86 aircraft on an airfield with jet engines. United States F-86 D aircraft. X-1 plane takes off at supersonic speed. Men dressed in protective clothing fuel X-1 aircraft, one of them stands under a shower to wash away rocket fuel from protective clothing. X-1 aircraft in area near rocket fuel stands at Muroc Air force Base in California. X-1 in flight, nose and wheels down as it prepares to land. Martin Matador, a guided missile launched, missile in flight. A document titled ' Nuclear Powered Aircraft' stamped as ' Top Secret' A mosaic of five scenes showing F-59 As diving in low, Matador launched, X-1 aircraft in flight and F-86 D stationary. A top secret document titled ' Nuclear Powered air craft'
Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States. General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg speaks, a document titled 'Ridenour Report'. First page of the document titled 'Research and Development in United States Air Force'. Air force organizational chart shows the hierarchy. A map of United States shows the location of ARDC (Air Force Research and Development Command) at various places. Workers at the entrance of Wright Air Development Center in Ohio. Men and women work inside the center. A B-52 aircraft takes off and in flight.
U.S. Coast Guard sailors lined up to board a railroad train in United States, bound for a flood ravaged area. Boats loaded on flat railroad cars and the train moves away to flooded area providing relief to the victims. A large stadium seen in the background. Supply boxes piled up, men load boxes of relief supplies onto a U.S. Coast Guard airplane. Aircraft takes off to provide supplies to flood victims.
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