Industrial activity in Hawaii. Flat cars loaded with material pass on railroad tracks in Honolulu, Hawaii early in World War 2. Smoke issues from smoke stacks of factories. Clouds in the sky. Flat cars loaded down with supplies. A factory processing pineapple.
Operation Desert Rock at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. Marines in tan overalls and wearing marine utility caps stand around Marine Corps jeeps near Yucca Flats, an atomic bomb test area. Two marines drive away in a jeep. An aircraft in flight as it leaves a vapor trail. The marines stand in desert as they wear utilities, cartridge belts, helmets. The marines carry rifles and BAR's( Browning Automatic Rifle). A small self propelled gun and LVT ( Landing Vehicle Tracked) in the background. A small board sticks out of sand. The marines walk by emplacements and look down into a foxhole. A member of a radiation team. A walkie talkie laid on the ground. Batteries and other equipment on the ground preceding test shot Dog of Operation Tumbler-Snapper.
Close up of a flat tire. Men get out of a blue 1967 Volkswagen Squareback station wagon on shoulder of desert highway. Billboard reads “Check you gas, oil and temp gauges”. "What a drag!" one of them exclaims. Young men sitting at gas station garage while another rolls new tire into place to replace a flat. Volkswagen Squareback station wagon driving on desert highway. A Greyhound (2464) bus driving to California as seen from a moving car. Desert highway traffic with palm trees and setting sun. Police car pulling over a Volkswagen on desert highway in evening. Driver shows his license to a police officer holding a flashlight at night. Police officer says, "I have no alternative but to issue you a citation for speeding." Close up of speeding ticket being handed to driver. Exasperated driver pounds steering wheel after receiving a speeding ticket, saying, "my first ticket in three years!"
Early information retrieval practices in a corporate engineering office in the United States during the 1960s. Dramatization depicts a woman in the work force in the 1960s: Female worker with vintage 1960s beehive hair style appears to be performing work as a secretary, but, it turns out she is engineer Julie Stone. Julie takes printouts from a printer in information center. She opens a drawer and takes out document files. She leaves her office. She arrives at office of her Chief named George A Price. Chief scolds an engineer called Harry for committing mistakes in his designs. Chief asks Harry to be responsible in his work. Another engineer named Pete Newton draws designs. View of the cabins. Harry meets Newton and discuss about his conversation with Chief. Julie on telephone calls Harry. They go to a restaurant for lunch. They talk about the sources of information and Julie encourages Harry to use the information center that she runs, rather than relying on antiquated and incomplete methods of obtaining information. Julie gets up and leaves the restaurant. Harry and Pete talk in the office. Pete asks him about his meeting with Julie. Harry takes his seat and opens a drawer. He looks over the documents and publications, including a Playboy magazine, to get information about transistors. Julie meets with Chief and complains about Pete and other engineers failure to use the information center and to lookup answers to questions in a more comprehensive way. Chief attends a telephone call. Pete enters Chief's office. Depicts woman worker arguing with boss. Clip also shows examples of common work place interpretation of women worker roles in the 1960s, including opening introduction of clip that objectifies the woman worker as a sexual object (before broad awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace), and a restaurant scene that opens with the man assuming that the woman has asked him out to lunch as a love interest rather than for work purposes.
Flat bed truck pulls out under the C-124 aircraft in Alaska. Access doors closed to the lower loading section.
United States shipyards launch ships flat-bottom tank carriers. A large number of vessels are produced in order to meet the requirement of World War. Henry J Kaiser assembles model of a victory ship. A ship named 'Robert E Peary' is built in record time. Huge crowd gathered during the launch of the ship.
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