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Food and gasoline rationing practices in the United States during World War II.

Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039954
Private cars, motor trucks, buses, trailers and horse carts move on roads, in United States.

Various types of vehicles use the road, in United States. A number of parked cars at a public parking lot. Vehicles move on a busy street outside a motel. Motor truck and a trailer moves on a road. Flatbed car carrier truck parked on side of road with several new Ford automobiles on it. Two women leave their house, sit in a car and drive away. Cars, trucks, buses and a horse cart on a road. An early Greyhound Bus bound for Washington approaches on a highway. A late 1920's or early 1930's automobile passes a horse driven cart at high speed.

Date: 1932
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036975
Utilities of motor trucks, loaded and carry various materials on a highway, in United States.

1930's motor trucks, buses and cars on a road in the United States. A truck loaded with material. Men load furniture into a parked moving truck outside a residence. Truck common carriers of freight on their way on a highway; faster cars overtake the trucks.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036979
Construction of the Hoover dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada in the United States

In a 1970 television program, host Lee Marvin talks about Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, in between Arizona and Nevada in the United States. Historical scenes from construction of the dam in the early 1930s. Crane lifts a number of workers on a raised platform. Worker comes down the mountain with the help of rope. Workers walk across bridge. Dynamite explosion dislodges rock for dam construction. The Hoover dam under construction. Rock blasting in the dam's diversion tunnels. Construction workers eat food in Anderson's Mess hall. Views of workers dining in the mess hall and the kitchen during food preparation. Includes interviews with workers Joe Kine, Tommy Nelson, and Doug Moore who participated in construction. Later aerial views of the Hoover Dam around 1970.

Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023505
Unemployed men get jobs in industries and a cooperative farm plan to meet market demand in the United States.

Postwar (after World War II) agriculture activities in the United States. Farming equipment in operation on farms. Canned food in a store. Flashback scenes to the Great Depression during the 1930s: A man carries a banner which reads 'Unemployed Will Take Any Job'. Unemployed men lying on a bench. A sign on a gate : 'No Men Wanted'. Shabby housing tenements and shacks of poverty victims falling apart in a rural farm area. Forward again to the post war 1940s: Smoke comes out off chimneys of a factory. American workers busy at a auto assembly line finishing new cars (appears to be 1946 or 1947 Chevrolet cars). Factory workers line up at a pay window to receive pay checks. An industrialist works in his office. Crowds of American citizens on busy city streets with pedestrians and automobiles, and shoppers looking in store windows, including store windows showing elaborate Christmas displays. A cooperative farm plan to produce what the industrial and consumer markets demand. A man milks a cow with an automatic milking machine. A woman using electricity on a farm to power a new open top clothes washing machine. Farm machines are used.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058167
Native American Indian students engaged in different activities at a school based on part-time work in the United States.

Work-study education programs for North American Indians in the United States during the 1930s Great Depression era. Indian students enter a government school which is based on part-time work. Students learning new skills in the vocational school including typing, painting and working on blueprints (drafting).

Date: 1933
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075301