Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Yachts of all shapes and sizes take off from Los Angeles on a 3-week sail to Hawaii as the Transpacific Yacht Race starts. Yachts underway at sea for 2000 mile run, mountains in the background. Sailors on the yachts. The yachts at sea.
Workers in a Studebaker automobile factory move a fully wooden crated new automobile on an overhead hoist. It is labeled "Studebaker Automobiles" on it's side. Views of crated cars bound for different destinations overseas. Seen are those headed to: Buenos Aires, Capetown, Melbourne, and Cairo. Next, a Studebaker sedan car is seen raising lots of dust as it races at high speed over a dirt road on Catalina Island, off the coast of California. The driver is trying to climb a 1500 foot hill over a distance of 3 miles, as fast as he can. His car is seen negotiating hairpin turns during the ascent and finally arriving at the summit.
A radium mine in Slick Rock, Colorado. The entrance of the mine. A sign 'Radium Mine'. Mine workers are wheeling wheel carts filled with ore. The wheel carts are unloaded outside the mine. Workers coming in with wheel carts after unloading. A front end loader loads ore onto a truck. A bucket attached to the loader unloads ore into the truck.
Aerobic physical fitness exercises and its benefits. Aerobic exercises like walking, running, cycling, swimming, stationary running are required for physical fitness. Animation of human figure depicts heart beats and blood supply to heart mussels. An exhausted man moves in jungle and image showing elevated heart rate is superimposed. Animated diagram showing how exercise and cardiovascular fitness reduces heart disease and high blood pressure of human beings. It depicts how aerobic exercise reduces blood cholesterol accompanied by proper diet. A physically fit man in a business suit approaches a podium on stage. Audience in the foreground of the auditorium listens.
Clinical description of asbestos related diseases. Animated diagram depicts that worker working without protective gear at asbestos work site, breathe in asbestos with oxygen. It shows functions of alveoli. Asbestos particles thicken the lung wall and affects alveoli, which reduces worker's breathing capacity. The worker suffers from asbestosis. Worker smokes cigarette then smoke of cigarette enters into body and reacts with asbestos, which is very harmful and causes lung cancer. If worker quits smoking then chances of getting lung cancer will be reduced by 50 %. Asbestos affects pleurae and causes mesothelioma.
Flexible glass (plexiglass) and its varied uses being tested soon after its invention. A man works on a flexible glass. Flexible glass used at various places. A glass at a diving platform as a diver dives into the pool. A car moves over a flexible glass embedded in a wooden frame. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960.
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