Wedell-Williams Model 44 airplane makes a landing at New York. Colonel Roscoe Turner with his signature mustache looks out from the cockpit of the aircraft at the end of his flight. Then plane has a number 57 on it, representing his marketing partnership with "Heinz 57" food company. He set a new speed record, covering the distance between Detroit and Brooklyn New York in 1 hour and 47 minutes, at an average of 308 miles per hour.
North German Lloyd cruise liner SS Dresden keeled over at a reef in a treacherous fiord in Kopervik, Norway. The German passengers from the ship get aboard a rescue ship. View of the rescue ship.
Scorching summer heat and great humidity drive millions of people to the Long Island seashore and other watering places. An aerial view of the crowded Long Island seashore in New York, United States. Crowds of people on a Long Island New York beach. Children frolic in fountains under streams from fire hydrants.
A reversible aircraft propeller tested at Burbank, California. Demonstration of airplane screw with varying pitch, permits plane to back up, climb at greater angles and come to short stops after landing. Man gives a flag signal. View of the biplane aircraft taking off and landing. On landing it comes to a quick stop and immediately into a brisk reverse back toward a hangar.
View of a ship in New York, United States. Mrs Samuel Insull aboard the ship leaves for Chicago where her former utilities magnate husband faces trial on several fraud charges. Her son, wearing a black armband, greets her aboard the ship.
The U.S. Federal government in its first reimbursement action through the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) created through the Banking Act of 1933, during the Great Depression. Government reimbursing the patrons of the failed Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois. Crowd gathered outside Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois, waiting to get in. Man shaking hands with Mrs. Lydia Lobsiger, the first customer to receive her money back through the FDIC program. Banking customers receive one hundred percent of their deposit amounts. Women and men approach the counter and bank teller counts dollar bills to pay citizens. A young boy wearing a cap stands by the window. Bank teller examines his account book and then lays out coins for the boy. The child carefully slides the money off the counter, counting it as he goes.
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