In 1938 American distance runner and athlete Glenn V. Cunningham wins the race in Princeton, New Jersey. Cunningham and U.S. athlete Archie San Romani during the last lap of the race. The spectators seated in a stand as they cheer. Cunningham wins the race.
New methods of industrial farming in the United States. An animated map depicts wheat combines operating on the Tulare Lake Farm in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Few skilled men operate farm machinery harvesting wheat. A plow is used on the farm to till the soil to sow seeds. Farmers look at wheat grains. Mechanized harvesting tools are used on the farm for harvesting. An animated map shows Seabrook Farms in the south of New Jersey. Vegetables are harvested and processed on the farm. Seabrook Farm employees move around the quarters on street. The owner of the Seabrook Farm and his two sons in an office. The father (owner of farm) seated at a table and they all look at a map. Women employees work in the office. Workers' living quarters. The workers take coffee in a cafeteria.
Home-front activities in New Jersey, United States. A sign: 'Historical Museum'. A couple looks at the bed in which George Washington slept. A statue of a man on a horse. A soldier looks at a memorial stone. A sign on the memorial reads 'Washington and U.S. Army'. The soldier looks at a lake. A woman knits. Signs on shops and stores. Offices of lawyers seen. Old men gather in a village square. Men play a game.
'Daredevil dives forty five feet into 18-inches pool' shows stunt man Andy Linton climb up a forty five feet platform at Pine Lake at New Jersey, as people look on. He dives into an eighteen inch shallow pool.
Frido W. Kessler and his rocket-propelled mail plane. (Allegedly, the first scheduled mail-delivery rocket flight) Kessler is seen in his workshop with his test stand and apparatus. Launch of Kessler's first winged liquid-fueled (liquid oxygen and Kerosene) mail rocket plane on frozen Greenwood Lake, New York, February 23,1936. Launch team opens the nose to insert mail into the rocket-propelled glider plane (reportedly designed by German rocket pioneer Dr. Willy Ley). Kessler poses with a little girl, Gloria Schleich Quackenbush, for whom the plane is named. She holds a silver cup of snow. They are surrounded by a cluster of men. Photographic equipment is set up next to them. The girl, Gloria, empties the cup of snow onto the tail of the rocket plane, to Christen it "Gloria (I)." Launch team fueling the rocket from containers. A technician in fireproof protective suit lights fuel at tail of the plane. It flares up in flames and then settles down with normal rocket burn, and leaves the launch stand. (A second rocket plane is seen sitting on the ice near the launch stand.) The rocket glider only goes about 20 feet before falling onto the ice. Team members look over the stand and prepare to try again with Kessler's second plane, the "Gloria (II)." They load the mail (6000 letters and postcards) into the nose and set the plane on the launch stand. It launches very nose high, and strikes the ice near the stand. But the rocket motor continues to propel it across the ice until it takes off again and continues, a way in the air until flipping over and crashing on the ice. View of people surrounding the broken plane on the ice. (Note: The second attempt carried the Gloria II and its mail, about 2000 feet, far enough to cross the border from New York into New Jersey, constituting an interstate mail delivery, and making the letters and post cards worthy mementos of the event.)
High School Students skip classes and parade with banners on streets against suspension of their Athletic Instructor in Plainfield NJ. Few students inside a car display banner reading 'For Sale' from window to the camera. Students gather around an open area of street and perform Collegiate Shag. April 1938.
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