Aircraft TA-4J parked outside hangar at Naval Air Station Chase Field. TA-4J undergoes inspection. Man works under TA-4J. Man in cockpit of TA-4J. Pilot in cockpit. Letters on side of plane read 'MAJ SMOKE BURGESS'. Co-pilot behind pilot in cockpit of TA-4J. Man refuels TA-4J. Man signals pilot in aircraft. Man moves away fuel pipe from plane. Truck is driven.
Ground-crew woman carries cockpit ladder to aircraft TA-4J at Naval Air Station Chase Field. TA-4Js parked in flight line at airfield. Pilot gets down TA-4J and converses with ground-crew woman. Pilot goes under TA-4J. View inside cockpit of TA-4J. Instrument panel in cockpit. Man works with equipment in lower section of TA-4J. Pilot and other men examine aircraft. Men check wings of TA-4J.
Crisis in Poland after the imposition of Martial Law by its Military Government. Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz reads a poem and insists the Polish people to rise and unite for a common cause of freedom.
Opening scene shows hands of a man, in overalls, as he sands a small wooden figure of a horse. Next, handicraft materials, including yarn and roughly cutout blocks of wood, are seen laid out on a table. The hands of a woman are seen as she marks with pencil where some further finishing is needed on a rough cutout wooden figure of a horse. Slate quotes a Brasstown worker about satisfaction from making something with your own hands.
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.
Two pilots stand in front of a P-40 airplane at the Curtiss Aircraft Company in Buffalo, NY. The pilots are H. Lloyd Child, Curtiss’ chief test pilot (at left) and apparently a USAAF major (at right). They are performing acceptance flight tests on new planes during World War II. Another pilot is in the cockpit of the plane behind them. A P-40 is seen taxiing rapidly on the ramp near the Curtiss hangars at the Buffalo Airport. A shiny P-40 being taxied. The first P-40 takes off and climbs out with landing gear extended. The shiny one does likewise. The first P-40 is seen circling high overhead, with landing gear still extended. Next, it is seen over the runway on final approach, about to land. Curtiss employees move aircraft parts in an open stake truck, next to a building, in the foreground.
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