Flood relief operations of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Flood relief operations by WPA and flood devastation becomes headlines of newspapers. Flood-damaged goods being shoveled out of stores in Sharpsburg. Debris and mud being cleaned from streets and dumped in the Allegheny River. Safety instructions being pasted on telephone poles in McKees Rocks. Water being distributed by tanker trucks to people who need fresh water. People standing in queue to receive water. Salvation Army units dispense food and hot drinks to WPA workers and to lines of affected homeless and unemployed citizens. Interrupted highway and roads due to flood water. Flood-battered furniture being removed from homes in the New Kensington area.
Activities following accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, Unit two, in Pennsylvania. Technicians, with breathing apparatus and protective clothing, entire areas of radioactivity in the plant. They pause at the interior spent fuel pool. The technicians descend many levels until they reach an area containing several inches of water on the floor. They pass a sign saying "Danger, Diesel fuel fire door.Keep Closed." They confer as they assess conditions and leave the area..
Activities following accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania. Technicians in full protective gear assess conditions inside Unit two of the station. Technician writes '32' on wall. At another location inside the plant, he writes 'No Penet', and draws arrows on a wall. Technicians check pipes. One writes a measurement on elbow of a large pipe above them. They check roof. Machines and pipes over head. Valves and machines in a room. '27'' to middle', '9 to door' written on a wall.
Groups of mounted artillerymen pulling horse-drawn field pieces, enter a training field at Camp Meade, Maryland. Scene shifts to shallow hillside where artillery unit guidons are set into the ground and artillerymen are seated on the grass. Gunners fire pedestal-mounted antiaircraft machine guns. M1917 tanks sitting in a field.
A power plant at Boulder Dam and pictorial depictions of water supplies from Parker Dam and Imperial Dam serving California. The two wings of Boulder Dam power plant, one along each side of the Black Canyon wall. The power plant with different units for generating power. The machinery inside the plant. The major transmission lines that carry power to Los Angeles California metropolitan areas. Two men in the plant near transmission lines. A map depicts the path of power transmission lines. The power plant with turbines. The transmission lines along a desert. A path in the desert. A map depiction of water supply from Parker Dam to the city of Los Angeles. A map depiction of water supply to the Imperial Valley from Imperial Dam. The whole of the Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) in view with water gushing through the gates.
Presidential candidate Richard Nixon's answers to a panel during a special television program in Michigan. A panelist questions about Ambassador Paul in the General Assembly session of United Nations. The whole house of audience breaks into laughter as Richard Nixon replies to him. Pat Nixon sits among the studio audience.
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