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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Troops fight at Anzio. 2. Under Secretary of State Stettinius returns from London. 3. Enlistees in the WAC, WAVES, and SPARS model uniforms; U.S. Navy nurses on Guadalcanal. 4. A baby contest in California. 5. The Forest Service uses a snow plow to clear Montana roads. 6. Admiral John Beardall is decorated at the U.S. Naval Academy; midshipmen pass in review. 7. The Kentucky Derby....
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Learn what makes the Bill of Rights so important to America! "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America..." That preface begins the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. When the Constitution was written, certain framers, powerful political leaders of their day such as Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and Patrick Henry, insisted on adding basic legal protections...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Bombers strike Berlin. 2. The Gripsholm arrives in New York with soldiers freed from German prison camps. 3. General Blamey reviews veterans in Sydney. 4. General William Shedd and Eleanor Roosevelt inspect garrisons in Puerto Rico; Mrs. MacArthur christens the Australian destroyer Bataan. 5. German prisoners in the U.S. shovel snow and work in a shoe shop. 6. Italian refugees are...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Airmen graduate and Canadian military units parade. 2. Prefabricated homes are manufactured, transported, and erected. 3. British sailors on leave harvest hay and corn. 4. Oil-rich sand is processed. 5. A Navy Day parade in New York City. 6. Street tests of a 117-passenger bus. 7. An amphibious assault on the Solomon Islands.
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In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt's progressive legislation, dubbed the Square Deal, aimed to limit the power of corporations, protect consumers, and conserve natural resources. The Square Deal drastically changed the United States – and still impacts our lives today.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: Admiral Halsey's gigantic 3rd Fleet; shots of the U.S.S. Missouri; on Okinawa, U.S. fighter planes are staged for landing on Japan's main island; Japanese local commanders surrender; Japanese police are put under Allied control; Admiral Nimitz visits and congratulates Admiral Halsey; Task Force 31; the fate of one of Japan's last major battleships; U.S. takeover of military base on Japanese...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Villagers help construct airstrips in India; newly won positions on New Guinea; British and Indian troops in Burma. 2. Women's gymnastics in Australia. 3. Quadruplets celebrate a birthday in Texas. 4. U.S. planes bomb railroad yards in Rome; U.S. Army troops advance from Anzio beachhead. 5. Yugoslav refugees debark in Italy. 6. General Eisenhower, General Montgomery, and General Arthur...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Transport planes and gliders land troops on Myitkyina airstrip in Burma; General Stilwell and General Merrill; Lieutenant Colonel Seagrave operates on wounded in field hospital. 2. U.S. servicewomen sightsee in Egypt on camels. 3. All U.S. artillery pieces in Normandy fire on the 4th of July, and General Eisenhower, General Bradley, and Joseph Collins participate; French schoolchildren...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. An allied convoy lands reinforcements in Africa; German dive bombers are beaten. 2. A portable X-ray machine is used at war. 3. President Roosevelt in the White House. 4. Princess Martha of Norway and Eleanor Roosevelt open a Red Cross drive. 5. Russian pictures show fighting in Stalingrad.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Japanese oil fields in Borneo and a German airfield are bombed. 2. General Lucian K. Truscott presents decorations to the 92nd Infantry Division, 5th Army. 3. General Albert Wedemeyer as the new Commander of Army Forces in China; Ambassador Hurley presents his papers to Chiang Kai-shek. 4. Boxing matches between American, English, and French soldiers in Rome. 5. Diagrams and the manufacture...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The British 8th Army advances through mud in Tunisia; General Eisenhower. 2. Chinese air cadets train and graduate in the U.S. 3. Marines return from a raid on a Japanese outpost. 4. Ammunition and tank destroyers are manufactured; amphibious equipment is tested; trucks transport food and equipment. 5. Tests of a 240mm howitzer.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Artillery blasts German positions in Italy. 2. Italian POWs are trained as U.S. Army engineers. 3. New citizens take the oath of allegiance in Central Park, New York City. 4. U.S. troops in England construct homes from crates. 5. Bombs and flamethrowers tested. 6. General Eisenhower inspects an air force base in England; Marauder bombers blast German railroad yards by day.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S., British, and Chinese troops advance against Japanese positions in Burma. 2. The Canadian Navy stages a musical show. 3. Yugoslav troops in Italy board ships to return to liberated areas of their homeland. 4. The Allied Control Commission issues supplies in Naples. 5. War materialsare stockpiled on the Atlantic shore awaiting loading; a navy seaplane tender sinks a German U-boat...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Allied troops receive a ticker-tape parade. 2. Army motorcycle dispatch riders take cross-country test. 3. Henry Ford and Donald Nelson inspect bomber and tank plants. 4. Victory ships are constructed and launched. 5. General Hugh Drum and Admiral Andrews attend an Army-Navy benefit horse race. 6. South American military experts view U.S. land and air forces. 7. U.S. soldiers and nurses...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. The Biloxi and the Astoria are launched. 2. Work on a dam on Canada's Saguenay River. 3. Red Cross boxes for U.S. POWs are shipped. 4. Academy Awards are presented to James Cagney and Greer Garson. 5. Burned fir trees are transported. 6. Royal Air Force ground crews in training. 7. Italian women and children return to Italy. 8. Madame Chiang Kai-shek visits Wellesley College. 9. Allies...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. General Buckner observes artillery of the 10th Army; Navy planes blast Japanese positions on Okinawa; Australian troops land on Borneo and General MacArthur arrives; Navy torpedo boats assault a Borneo oil depot. 2. Sections of a floating drydock are launched in the U.S. and assembled in Pacific waters; a cruiser is repaired. 3. General Eisenhower, accompanied by Eleanor Roosevelt,...
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. U.S. planes bomb German cities; artillery pounds Nazi positions in Italy and infantry advance. 2. Mustang fighter planes fly from California to New York in 6.5 hours. 3. Nurses are sworn in to the U.S. Army. 4. An infantry division parades in the U.S. 5. Airplanes spray farmland with insecticide. 6. U.S. troops land on New Guinea; tanks and infantry advance through wet jungle terrain....
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Australian troops capture Madang, New Guinea. 2. A navy dirigible patrols for German submarines. 3. The Shah of Iran and his family. 4. A cannon is fired from a B-25 bomber; bombs are dropped. 5. Animals are rescued from an irrigation viaduct. 6. Fighters of the 8th Air Force down German planes. 7. Roosevelt inspects the 7th Army in Sicily.
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This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Lend-lease shipments are prepared and shipped; President Roosevelt. 2. ground and aerial views of Canadian bombers and a U.S. Army observation plane. 3. The cruiser San Francisco docks in the U.S.; Admiral King. 4. Supplies are carried by trains and trucks in Alaska. 5. A meeting of the U.S. High Command (Generals Arnold and Marshall; Admirals King, Land, and Leahy; Harry Hopkins;...
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This program provides a powerful examination of the forces that have contributed to the dismantling of the American economy. The program is based on the research of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Donald L. Barrett and James B. Steele, who spent two years interviewing workers in nearly 50 cities in 16 states and Mexico, as well as government officials and corporate managers. The program features Donald Barlett and James Steele, as well as interviews...