Recovering from the great depression, emergency banking laws were passed, formation and work of the CCC a new government agency that put people to work, creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), farm programs, government backed loans for housing, Pearl Harbor, production of goods for war, the Marshall plan after WWII, labor reforms, the age of new technology, John F. Kennedy as President, and the unfinished and continuing task of creating a better society and life for all.
Street and traffic scenes from the 1920's, scenes from a Ford automobile assembly plant, scenes from the floor of the Stock Market Exchange, empty factories depicting the depression, lines and benches filled with the unemployed, poverty, housing of the poor, soup lines, Abolish Bread Lines Vote for Roosevelt Banner is carried by people out of work, shows people in vehicles drifting around the country looking for work, women at work in the war factories.
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