U.S. Army Air Service fliers, Lt. John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G Kelly, are seen boarding their Fokker T-2 and taking off from Roosevelt Field, Hempstead, Long Island, New York. They are embarking on the first non-stop coast-to-coast flight across the United States. Their airplane seen in flight.
Coal chute loads railroad car at Ford coal mine in United States. Freight train of coal cars travels through countryside, onto industrial siding. Molten metal in the blast furnaces. Workers outside the industrial plant. Large crowd in the market.
Loaded coal hoppers at a mine in United States. Coal dropped from the tipple and a man keeps a check on it.
View of a coal vein at a Ford mine in United States. Ventilating machinery runs. Miners see a man car come. Miners get aboard hand car.
Mine cars enter a Ford coal mine in United States. Miners working in mine wear safety helmets. Mining machine in operation.
Documentary from U.S. Department of the Interior, about truck manufacturing at the General Motors Truck Company, Pontiac, Michigan. An automobile drives away from a house carrying two passengers. In contrast, a truck is seen being filled with earth by a steam shovel.It drives away from the construction site carrying a heavy load. The loaded truck backs up to another construction site where earth is needed and prepares to dump its load. A parking lot filled with parked automobiles at an industrial plant. In contrast, trucks are seen moving along a highway, continuously at work. Men in materials laboratory subject a sample of steel rod to a torsion test.They twist it to the breaking point, in a testing machine.