Shows construction of road in Burma.Natives cross suspended footbridge. Trucks,trailers and tractors cross a US-constructed bridge.Indian laborers load gravel on trucks from a chute. Trucks dump the gravel on the ground and laborers spread it to construct new roads.Shows laborers tossing gravel from a river bed into truck. A jeep speeds along by a newly constructed road. Truck passes by a sign on the road saying 'To Tokyo'.25 january 1943.
French Anti-communist propaganda piece of the 1950s: Exterior of a chateau which serves as a school for trade unionists of the Free Trade Unions in Paris, France. A class for railroad men on the settling of dispute, commences inside the chateau. French worker Jacques Dupont looks at a Free Trade Union poster. A Force Ouvrière (Worker’s Force) meeting. Jacques accompanies a new member to the meeting hall. Scenes of a discussion going inside the trade union meeting. Workers demonstrate against the working of the Communist unions. A vote is taken on the outcome of the meeting. The majority vote against cooperation with the Communists (Reds).
Shows Robert,a factory worker of Isrbegues,France,in conversation with his parents. Robert leaves from home. A notice by the factory union workers on a wall.The notice tells about false promises by factory owners. It urges all factory workers to unite. Workers seated around a table in a house at night time. A fellow worker informs them about the notice. The news reaches the factory workers of the entire town.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower decorates the outgoing Secretary of State, Charles E. Wilson with Medal of Freedom at White House in Washington DC. Neil H. McElroy is sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States. McElroy takes his seat in his new office. U.S. Department of Defense seal and US-flag can be seen in background .
A Canadian railway train passes through the newly laid rail routes in the Peace River area in Northwestern Canada. It is a new 300 mile route from northern Vancouver Canada to northern British Columbia. Railroad train crosses a high altitude bridge.Several gorges and canyons in the background.
Scenes of various atomic bomb tests conducted by America during a course of time. Shows the atomic bomb test in Alamogordo, New Mexico(1945). Nuclear weapons tests for shot Able and shot Baker, tested at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Crossroads(1946). Close -up view of massive nuclear explosion at sea seen from shore with blast wave approaching unmanned ships near harbor and a palm tree on shore seen waving dramatically. Atomic bomb tests at the Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) In the Marshall Island as part of Operation Sandstone (1948). (World War II period).
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