A 50 mile sweepstakes car race in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Cars race ahead of each other on a dirt track as 23,000 spectators watch the race. Driver Ken Douglas skids on a turn and hits a ditch during the race. Douglas being carried away on a stretcher for medical aid. The race continues. Bill Cummings smiles after winning the race.
U.S. Coast Guard works to rescue victims of a flood in Greenwood, Mississippi. Men lower Coast Guard dory boats from a railroad car. Spectators watch as the men put dory boats in the water. Prisoners in striped clothes stack sandbags to control overflowing water of Yazoo and Tallahatchie Rivers. Submerged houses and trees. Residents flee in boats. Coast Guard officers aboard a boat in water. U.S. Army and Red Cross Fokker F.VII a aircraft in flight over the flood area. Aerial views of the flooded region.
Under the direction of City Manager George W. Welsh a new civic plan is introduced for unemployed men in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the Great Depression. George W. Welsh poses. Unemployed men are employed on the Highway and Street Improvement projects for which they receive food and fuel as supplies from the municipal relief stations. Men work on road with shovels and use wheel carts. Exteriors of the Social Welfare Store. Supply bags in the store. Bottles of milk and bread are distributed to children in a bread line.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito on horseback followed by other Japanese officers on horseback along Yayogi parade grounds in Tokyo, Japan. Emperor Hirohito reviews his cavalry, infantry and artillery.
Excavation of Herculaneum city in Italy to restore the ruins of the old capital. A project to uncover the ruins of ancient metropolis shows men digging with shovels. Freight cars used by workers. The men work around on old buildings in the area.
Fishermen on a strike against low rates offered by fish canners in San Pedro, California. A harbor jammed with idle boats as the fishermen roam the beach. The fishermen ready their vessels for return to the water when the disagreement is settled. The fishermen sort fish aboard the boats and empty fishnets.
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