Endurance dancing contest in Chicago,Illinois. Stressed put couples dance on floor during the Endurance dancing contest. Woman falls. Men hold their partners as they feel drowsy. Nurse treats a woman. Dancers eat food.
National Basketball Association (NBA) tournament final in Boston,Massachusetts . Large crowd of spectators gather at the stand for the final game. The game begins between Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. Spectators cheer the players. Boston Celtics score 42 points in the last period and beat the Los Angeles Lakers.
Coal miners in a sit down strike in Wilsonville, Illinois. Large crowd of civilians gather on street in front of mine entrance. Miners going down coal mine lift. Coal miners on sit down strike in the coal pit. Some miners play cards. Some smoke cigars and others rest. Close ups of coal miners. Miners protest.
Annual Carnegie crew race on the Housatonic River in Derby,Connecticut. Princeton,Cornell Navy,Yale and other teams participate in the crew race. The race begins. Spectators line up on river banks. People watch the race from a moving locomotive. Yale team wins the race. Princeton and Cornell teams trail behind.
America's Cup Racing in 1937: British racing sail boat "Endeavour" towed to safe harbor in Newport, Rhode Island, after having been missing for several days on her trip across the Atlantic before the races. Sail boat underway at sea. U.S.Coast guard personnel aboard vessel tow Britain's challenger "Endeavour I" racing yacht into safe harbor.
Mass of ship building derricks and structures, at waters edge, viewed from boat entering channel. Members of the U.S. Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation preparing to implement orders to commandeer all U.S. shipyards and hulls, under construction therein, for the U.S. war effort. Shipping Board Chairman, Edward N. Hurley, is at corner leaning toward the man at head of table (Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps, General Manager of Emergency Fleet Corporation ?), U.S. Shipping Board flag is raised at a shipyard building, where it flutters in wind. A number of Army soldiers present in uniform. Official addresses gathering of shipyard workers and explains the takeover and has them pledge, with hands raised, to work for the success of the war effort. Other officials speak, as well. The shipyard workers wave their hats in sign of approval. Everyone leaves to get back to building ships.
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