U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt delivers a speech on Works Relief Program in Washington DC, United States (became the Works Progress Administration or W.P.A.). The President speaks standing in front of a number of microphones. He speaks about the Works Relief Program enacted by the Congress to combat unemployment during the Great Depression. He says that the first step is to put men and women on relief rolls. It is for the first time in five years that the relief rolls have declined in the winter months. He says that even though unemployment persists in the US, they have coined some remedial measures in which there are provisions to rule out future unemployment and to help those who are unemployed in the present emergency and the Work Relief Program helps to achieve this.
Boulder Dam site where installation work of steel pipes and concrete work is going on in the United States. The Boulder Dam site in view. Work under way in a tunnel. Rail cars bring concrete to the dam site. Construction underway at the site. Concrete taken in buckets transported by a cable way is dropped into interlocking columns. Men in the columns. A skid way in view. The structure of the dam which has risen to a considerable height. A U-shaped structure also in view.
The dedication of Boulder Dam by President Franklin Roosevelt in the United States. United States President Franklin Roosevelt speaks at a ceremony. Several dignitaries seated behind the President. The President dedicates Boulder Dam to the progress of the nation. View of whole of Boulder Dam. Vehicles pass along a road on the dam. The Lake Mead, the reservoir filling behind the dam. A boat carrying several people in the lake. Rocks in the midst of the lake.
The Pacific Northwest Ski Jumping Championship at Mount Hood in Oregon. A man crowns a woman who smiles for the camera. Scene shifts to Ski jumping activity. Skiers turned sideways hold to a rope line as they stand along the side of the ski jump. Spectators stand in the snow on both sides of the track. From this point on numerous views of ski jumpers are seen. They show skiers at the takeoff point atop the ski jump as well as skiers at the landing point below. Views include some of bad landings, but most are uneventful.
Several persons get injured in a gas blast in Brooklyn, New York. Motor carriages pass along a street. Several buildings along the street. A building destroyed during the gas blast. Broken window panes of the building. Firemen and other men and women gathered around the building. The damaged building in view. Window glasses lie shattered in a large area. Injured persons lie on beds in a hospital. An officer visits the injured. A woman beside an injured person.
An aviatrix (female flyer, woman pilot) gets a transport pilot's license in Burbank, California. An aircraft in flight. The aircraft taxis and lands at an airfield. A pilot in the aircraft. The Department of Commerce transport pilot license is issued to Laura Ingalls, an aviatrix. Laura Ingalls, the aviatrix who completed a several-mile solo flight around South America, with another person beside the aircraft. Laura Ingalls looks at the license in her hand.
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