A three wheeled automobile designed by Sterling Burgess and Buckminster Fuller. The automobile incorporates a rear end steering and streamline principles. Speed test trials by the automobile. The auto attains one hundred miles an hour speed. Several other cars seen on the road. Traffic on the street.
Mrs. Anna Van Skike swims 20 miles to celebrate her birthday. For her marathon distance swim she is garbed in a swimming costume or swimsuit which was popular in 1890. Her grand children and great grandchildren cheer her on.
A bathing beauty contest held at Steeplechase Amusement Park (1739 Riegelmann Boardwalk, Brooklyn, NY 11224, United States) in Coney Island in New York. Contestants dressed in swimsuits walk near the swimming pool for the contest. The trophies seen at a table. The contestants in the swimming pool. Levenoria Sabalis, the winner of the contest with trophy.
President Roosevelt cancels all aerial mail contracts. The Government orders the Army to take over the job. U.S. Army Planes standing at the Army flying fields. Activities at the Army flying fields. Men handling mail packets. U.S. Army Planes take off. Planes in flight.
Street fighting in Vienna. The Heimwehr (Nationalists paramilitary Homeguard) Storm troops who support Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss engage the Socialists and their Republican Guards in battles. The troops seen on the streets. Death toll mounts in strike riots.
The ocean liner Bremen underway. Smoke rises up from the stacks of the ship. Sailors aboard. Skyscrapers of New York City seen in background. Boxes containing gold bars move on conveyor belt from ship to dock. The liner Bremen brings more than $13,000,000 gold to United States following a sharp rise in the price of gold after passage of the Gold Reserve Act, and President Roosevelt setting the gold price much higher in the U.S. triggering exporters to send gold to the United States.
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