Describes advances in farming and rural life due to rural electrification efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). View of incubators and brooders for chicks to hatch. Farmer pushes down a weighted sand bag that pulls up an umbrella over new chicks. An electric refrigerated drum containing milk to be marketed. Farmer checks thermometer in drum. Farmer places milk cans into an electric refrigerator. A community cold storage unit containing baskets of fruits and vegetables. Farmer wheels a cart into the cold storage and places more baskets inside. Farmers demonstrating new labor saving electrified devices including a separator, a corn kernel peeler, and a belt-driven grain grinder. Animated map shows the Tennessee River Basin with TVA developments. View of a power plant and power transmission towers and lines.
Authorities quarantine 30000 people in Kiowa county where outbreak of spinal meningitis has taken place. Man buys groceries from a grocery shop. Doctors and nurses enter a building marked as quarantine. Doctor looks through the microscope. Two men carry a spinal meningitis patient on stretcher. Two men carry a casket of a person who died from spinal meningitis.
English motorist Malcolm Campbell sets a new world speed mark at Daytona Beach, Florida. Malcolm Campbell, a racing motorist drives his Blue Bird car over the course and sets a new record. People at beach. Campbell get off from his car. Men assist him in getting off the car. People standing around Campbell.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers build a 24 mile long Bell sewer, 12 deep in Los Angeles, California. They dig and brace the sides of the trench using pounded stakes. They add a gravel bed and then lay pipes into the trench. Engineers gather to inspect the pipe, led by LACRA chief engineer Ralph Smith. By hand, workers operate a giant pump handle with a massive hook on the end, which pulls massive timbers from deep buried positions along the line of the trench.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers cut and sort lumber in a Santa Monica, California lumber yard, largely comprised of old discarded sets from Hollywood movie studios. Truckloads of old wood arrive at the yard and it is sorted and cut further. Woman with a young boy stands in front of stacks of smaller lumber available to citizens as firewood, for aid during the Great Depression. The boy pulls his small wagon loaded with firewood.
Aircraft parked at a Los Angeles, California airport that is undergoing expansion. Horse pulled earth-moving carts carve new runways. Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers construct two runways at the airfield.
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