From Introduction: "The lack of comparable and accurate statistics of coal-mine accidents in the united States as a whole led the Bureau of Mines in 1911 to undertake the collection of such data. The mining departments of the leading foreign coal-producing countries have long taken cognizance of the importance of statistics. The bureau feels that in presenting the tables embodied in this report it is offering the and comparable statistics of coal-min accidents for the country as a whole that have ever been published."

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas fire department which spent a relatively calm day because of no major alarms occurred during morning.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Ranger pitching which had tossed 22 and two third scoreless innings crumbled in the stretch and allowed Kansas City to escape with an 8- 7 victory.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a balloonists Thomas Gatch who was sighted by a ship about 1200 west-southwest of Las Palmas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about baseball team and players who were at U. S open at Mamaroneck, New York.

Interview with Thomas A. Chipman, who is a World War II veteran and restaurant business owner from Hill City, Kansas. In the interview, Chipman discusses his experiences as a medic and driver in the European Theatre during the war. He describes what basic training and his induction into the Army was like, and also talks a little bit about when he was sent to the Pennsylvania Military College to earn a degree in engineering. Chipman recollects when his battalion was transported to England and France in order to fight in several battles that included the Battle of the Bulge. He describes what it was like to stay in Europe, and includes details such as the attitudes toward battlefield carnage, the evacuation and transport of the dead and wounded, the capture of German prisoners-of-war, and civilian refugees. Chipman reminisces of the German surrender and his return to the United States, where he started a restaurant business career.