Newsreel 'Soap Boxers, Junior speed demons tangle in 1952 Derby'. Several children wearing helmets ready for the youth soapbox car racing. Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart talks with a participant who is readying for the race. Coaster cars on the track. Eleven year old Joe Lunn of Columbus, Georgia wins the final of the junior speed classic in Soap Box Derby in Akron in Ohio. Huge crowd cheers him.
The Republican National Convention of Republican representatives from various states of the USA, held in Cincinatti, Ohio. Former President Herbert Hoover addressing the large number of spectators. The hall is packed to capacity. Photographers are taking photos. The banners of the states can be seen.1936.
Man demonstrates how rubber is wasted during rash driving by quick brakes and rapid turns on highway. A Chevrolet Car stops suddenly leaving tire marks. Man showing rubber particles.
A military half-track truck with a covered bed, leaves the roadway and climbs sideways up a steep off road embankment. The truck has conventional wheels with tires in front but is propelled by a tank like track with treads in the rear. The rear track is shown up-close rolling over large bumps.
Maneuvers of the USS Akron (ZRS-4), helium filled airship off the Jersey Coast in the United States. A Consolidated N2Y-1, with trapeze hookup equipment, in flight. The plane is released from a trapeze on the USS Akron. The airship in flight. An aircraft hooked to trapeze on the USS Akron. Another plane follows the USS Akron. The USS Akron with a plane hooked onto the trapeze. Another plane follows directly beneath it. Structure of the USS Akron in flight.
Flood damage in the United States in 1936. The Kennebec River, Maine: men stand on blocks of ice and view a broken bridge due to flooding. Ice jams loosened on the Penobscot River threaten towns near Bangor, Maine. View of giant ice flows and downed utility poles The Housatonic River, Connecticut: Broken electrical towers on the blocks of ice. Men walk on the ice blocks. Men clear the ice from road. Passaic River, New Jersey: the water of the river flows above limits over a bridge. Lake Conemaugh, Pennsylvania: View of submerged houses from flooding. The destoyed houses due to flood. The people stand on a bridge and heavy flow of water under the bridge. Ohio River: the submerged buildings from flooding are seen. Men on boats in front of the submerged shops. People on bridge run. The damaged cars,trains and trams lie on the streets. The streets filled with water. From a 1961 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
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