A training of tank destroyer crews in the U.S. during World War II. Trainee soldiers train in front of their supervisors. Trainee soldiers in water. They train under fire and crawl under barbed wires. They are in front of a house while learning the techniques of street fighting. A soldier crouches behind a wall. Another comes out of a door with a pistol in his hand. The trainees operating M3 Gun Motor Carriage half tracks armed with 75mm M1897A4 Guns. They fire their guns at targets including tanks and buildings, creating explosions.
A cotton picking contest in the United States. Cotton pickers pick up cotton in a cotton field. A referee signals the end of the competition by flying a flag. The pickers with their bags on their shoulders move towards a weighing machine. They empty the contents of their bags. The winner is presented a prize.
College girls in the U.S. make dolls for Yuletide gifts. The girls make the patterns and sew. They place the dolls in socks hanging at the fire place. The dolls are also arranged on the mantle on top of the fireplace. Candles burn in front of the fireplace. (World War II period).
Launch of the victory ship 'Carol Lombard' to honor the movie star Carol Lombard. Lombard died in the line of duty. A flashback shows the actress Carol Lombard signing autographs for the people. The launching ceremony-US Lieutenant Commander Robert Montgomery and U.S. Captain Clark Gable, husband of Carole Lombard, look as Irene Dunne smashes a bottle against the hull of the ship. Flashback shows Carole Lombard at a show.
Airplane propellers are tested in a wind tunnel in U.S. In a wind tunnel men work at the propellers of a plane. The propeller rotates. Operators look from the windows in the tunnel. A man walks into the wind tunnel and looks at the controls. Operators and engineers watch and operate controls. Operators study the motion of the propeller in the dark. A lady walks in the front of the tunnel. Her hair blows towards the tunnel.
Preparation of Miltown tablets by Wallace Laboratories in the United States. (Miltown was the brand name for Meprobamate, the the first widely used psychotropic drug in America). A sign on a machine reads 'Miltown Tablets'. Powdered medicine mixed in a container in a medical laboratory. Containers with attached pipes in the factory. A man looks at the containers. Fine mixture in a container. A production machine from which powdered medicine comes out. Women wearing apron and gloves in a laboratory. They are filling the tablets or pills in the bottles. Empty bottles on a machine are being filled with tablets. The bottles are seen being packed. Cartons of the Miltown tablets on conveyor belts for shipment all over the world. A globe of the world rotates to illustrate the global distribution of the medicine.
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