Packaging of Sunkist oranges near Farmersville, California. Women in distribution plant sort and box Sunkist brand oranges for shipping. Oranges on conveyor belts. Women pack the boxes.
The U.S. Open Men's Doubles in Brookline, Massachusetts. Tennis players Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn with Gregory Mangin and Berkeley Bell before the match. The players play in the U.S. Open Men's Doubles. Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn, winners of the match, are awarded
German aviator Wolfgang Von Gronau lands on Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois after his second transatlantic flight. Aerial view of skyscrapers of the city. Dornier Do J Wal flying boat aircraft approaches for landing. People gathered to welcome Wolfgang Von Gronau. The aircraft lands and taxis on Lake Michigan. People greet Wolfgang Von Gronau.
Young men invent a diver's helmet in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Young men help two divers get into their newly invented contraptions. The contraptions built with old boilers and cycle pumps. The two divers enter a water body as others around watch. A man holds onto the tubes attached to the two contraptions. They use cycle pumps to supply oxygen to the men under water. The divers emerge onto the water surface.
African American cotton pickers rush to gather the present crop before the Southern legislators accept the proposal for a cotton ban. The laborers use both antiquated and modern methods. The pickers gather the picked cotton on the roadside. The farmers supervise as the gathered cotton is wrapped up in bundles and weighed. The cotton is then loaded into trucks for shipment. A young African American boy sits atop a cotton heap and eats a very large slice of watermelon fruit.
Renewed manufacturing activity throughout the nation recalls thousands of workers as the American industry forges onward and shows some signs of improvement during the great depression. Bloomington, Illinois: Workers manufacture oil heaters. They work on various machines and equipment. Middleton, Ohio: 2400 men at work in one of the big rolling mill companies. The workers arrive at the steel mill. Steel processing. Santa Monica, California: Men and women report for work at the Douglas Aircraft Plant. They work on a tight schedule for the new type Army torpedo and bombing planes. Men work on various parts of the aircraft. Chicago, Illinois: The Atlas Brewing Company, a huge brewery and bottling works where the production has been speeded to almost 30,000 bottles of beer an hour to meet a surge of demand following the passing of the Volstead Act allowing 3.2 beer (3.2% alchohol), near the end of prohibition in America. Beer Bottles move on conveyor belts. The bottles are filled, packed in crates and readied for transportation.
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