Americans In The News

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Synopsis: Americans in the news: a farm family makes machine tools in their home; a girl mines chrome in the Pacific Northwest; a 14-year-old seaman from Philadelphia and a 13-year-old marine are sent home...(read more)

Date: 1942
Duration: 00:01:52
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States, Midwestern, Pacific Northwest, Philadelphia

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Americans In The News

On a modest farm in Midwestern United States the Herrington family is helping America win this war. In addition to farm chores they've turned their house into a factory making machine tools for armament plants. Father and Mother working side by side. Their sons, even their grandchildren, are helping. Producing tools needed for large plants this farm family's inventive genius is typical of Americans from coast to coast.

High in the mountain ranges along the Pacific a girl owns and operates one of the busiest chrome mines in the country. Chrome, an essential metal formally imported from the Philippines is needed for war production. Running the mine herself this typical American woman is producing some twenty tons of precious metal every day. Again, this is America all out for war.

In Philadelphia, seaman Norman Saul comes home, the idol of the neighborhood. When Norman's aunt told officials he was only fourteen years old Norman was sent home, his pay in war bonds, and told to go back to school. His patriotism is appreciated but fourteen is too young for the United States Navy.

And here's another, a marine. In the service for a year before they found he was only thirteen years old. Yes, they're sending him home to grow up too. Six feet one, a hundred and seventy-three pounds, every inch a typical boy. With fighting spirit like this America can't lose.