The 63rd Six Day Bike Race at Madison Square Garden in New York, United States. Cyclists ride bicycles along a track. Some of the cyclists fall during the race.
Students of a naval parachute jumping training school in New Jersey, United States. A blimp takes off from an air base at Lakehurst. The blimp in flight with a crew aboard it. Students of a naval parachute jumping school jump from the blimp while in flight.
Celebrities participate in a Christmas parade in Hollywood, California. Lights read “Hollywood’s Santa Claus Lane”. Men on horseback carry flags, move past a large crowd during the parade. Hollywood stars aboard decorated floats as they move past the crowds. Young star Mickey Rooney rides atop a float, removes his hat and waves it around acknowledging the parade audience. Tom Mix (Thomas Edwin Mix) rides by on his horse Tony II as he waves to the cheering crowd. People cheer as ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his mannequin Charlie McCarthy ride in the front of Santa's sleigh atop a float. Santa Claus behind them waves to the crowd.
A toy parade in Dayton, Ohio. Adults and children gathered for the toy parade. Decorated floats and toys move past the crowd during the parade. Clowns aboard the decorated floats. A man rides a dummy horse. Well decorated floats move past a large crowd on either side of a street. A man dressed as Santa Claus waves to a large crowd from the top of a building.
A vast ship building program to be undertaken by the Maritime Commission in the United States. The newly appointed Chairman of the Maritime Commission Joseph P. Kennedy, speaks on the proposed plan to build new merchant ships. He emphasizes the necessity for a complete refurbishing of the Merchant Marine. Outmoded merchant ships built during World War I. Several ships docked at the New York harbor. People cheer and wave as the new ocean liner SS Rex sets sail. Flagship of the United States Line, the Leviathan, in dry dock. The British ocean liner Queen Mary leaves for Europe. Foreign merchant ships entering and leaving the harbor.
Unemployed African American citizens in America during the Great Depression. Close up views of many idle, sad, and dejected African American men and women out of work, in lines, during the depression. A man looks at a bulletin board of an employment agency at 165 W 131st St in New York City. African American men and women stand in a bread line or food relief or unemployment line in United States. They get jobs through Works Progress Administration. African Americans working at factories, in classroom teaching, in offices typing, as an accordion musician, as a painter in a studio, as a bricklayer, and in an industrial kitchen. Views of smiling, happy African American workers, both men and women.
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