Nearly 500 unemployed men line up outside 'Unemployed gateway loan and sporting co.' to receive overcoats in Kansas City ,Missouri. Louis A. Cumonow,a local merchant, distributes the overcoats free of cost to needy during the great depression.
A high speed convertible armored machine designed by Walter Christie being tested at countryside in Linden,New Jersey. A man gets in the armored machine and conducts the test run.
Newsreel titled 'President Roosevelt approves liquor code as production booms' shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt conferring with Secretary of State Henry A. Wallace before approving liquor code in Warm Springs,Georgia near end of Prohibition. This occurred in advance of the formal ratification of the 21st amendment on December 5, 1933, repealing the 18th Amendment (Prohibition). Approval leads to a boom in the production of liquor. Scenes in a distillery and assembly line operation for Old Colony Dry Gin. Machines filling bottles with liquor. Women on assembly line packaging gin bottles. Lab technician beside laboratory instruments in distillery examines and tastes liquor and smiles. Large wooden barrels or casks being filled with beer or liquor, and then barrels rolled by men at production plant toward shipping areas.
Newsreel titled 'West Pointers get a touch of real army life' shows cadets in a march past at Fort Benning,Georgia. Cadets being given a practical experience in handling automatic rifles. They also study military tactics.
Newsreel titled 'Novel auto plane has successful run and flight' shows a new auto plane capable of running on road as well as of flying in sky in Buffalo,New York. A man gets in the biplane and it takes off.
Newsreel titled 'Waxed pants go far on a glacier chute-the-chute' shows people getting the seat of their ski pants coated with wax at Mount Rainier,Washington. They slide down the snow covered slope of Mount Rainier without feeling cold.
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