Announcement of support from leaders of finance stops wild trading and market panic at Wall Street in New York City after 13 million shares change hands in one day on the stock market. A large crowd seen gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), around time of Wall Street Crash of 1929.
A meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC, United States during the Great Depression. Elected officials and dignitaries seated inside the U.S. Capitol House chamber. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's emergency bank bill is passed, following a four day banking holiday. The bank bill being read. Speaker reading the President's words, "the causes of this failure of our banking system is unnecessary," and, "the government has been compelled to step in for the protection of depositors and the business of the nation." He further says that the first task is to open all sound banks. Immediate changes in banking legislation are made: The Banking Act of 1933 and the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC.
A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Men coming out of the mine after a day's work. Men walk past a board which reads: 'Safety Bulletins'. They look at the board. The notice is about instructions which are to be given next Monday about first aid and mine rescue work by the U.S. Bureau of Mines rescue car. Two men, Lucky Burns and Dick Kincaid, talk about the notice. Dick asks Lucky to sign up for the thing. Lucky denies. Dick joins the class. Exterior of the mine. Men walking nearby.
A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Lucky Burns and Dick Kincaid working in the mine. They talk about the work. Dick asks Burns whether he wants or not to drill a 'snubber' there. He refuses and says that they will give more powder to the top shots. They enter the mine the next day to start the work with their tools and equipment. They look at the area they were working on. Their shots were standing up. Dick says that they will have to work and dig the shots down. They load loose coal in cars. Burns suddenly falls and gets hurt by a mass of coal. A miner tries to help him and get him out of the coal pile. He applies a tourniquet to stop bleeding. Exterior of a house. Injured Burns seated outside the house. He reads a booklet about first aid. Dick standing nearby. He tells more about the instructions given to them during a safety course. Dick says that he can get copies of any of the booklets from the U.S. Bureau of Mines. They talk about a topic in the booklet that shows how barricades saved lives during mine disasters. Burns realizes that he was wrong in not attending the safety course. Mary Kincaid arrives and talks to Burns. He talks about information given in the booklet. The information is given about the fact that half of deaths in mines are caused by falling of roofs and coal over workers. Exterior of a house. A woman comes out of the house and meets a man.
American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York after completing his solo flight around the world in a just under 8 days. People gather in a large number to welcome him. They gather around his aircraft. Scene shifts to streets of New York City where Wiley Post is honored with a ticker tape parade for his Around The World achievement. The aviator seated aboard a jeep passing by. People celebrate and greet him. He is bestowed with the Medal of Valor by New York City Mayor John P. O'Brien. Next segment shows plane of American aviator Roscoe Turner landing, after his record-setting flight from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours and 5 minutes flying his Wedell-Williams Model 44 (WW-44) aircraft. This won him the 1933 Bendix Trophy. Close view of Roscoe Turner smiling from the cockpit of his aircraft. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Removal of atomic test air sampling equipment from an aircraft at Enewetak atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) in the Pacific Ocean on day of Able shot in Operation Crossroads tests. United States Army Air Force DB-17P Flying Fortress drone controllers aircraft parked at an air base. Men working near the aircraft. Other airplanes parked at the airbase. Men remove camera equipment and air sampling devices from the aircraft.
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