Children and families face winter suffering in Queens, New York, during the Great Depression. Opening slate reads: "20,000 Queens Children Face Winter Suffering, QUEENS DIVISION , Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee." First images show modest houses with clothes hanging on lines to dry. The Queensboro Bridge is in the Background. Robert Moses, New York City park Commissioner, who is a member of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee of New York, is seated at a desk. Closeup of him standing. View shifts to people (mostly men) completely filling a wide sidewalk, in a food line.Close up view of legs and shoes of unemployed and hungry men shuffling forward in line. Officers check men. Men collect food. A man collects food items from garbage on ground. A group of man scavenge for food in a garbage or refuse dump area. Furniture and belongings of people being hauled to street during evictions. Food bundles given to men. A man brings food bundle inside house and presents it to his eager and smiling children seated at table. Children open the package. Long lines of people enter a municipal building and sign relief or unemployment documents. A woman stands with her sad children. A girl at doorway of a house. A young boy cries. A woman with her two sad children in a house. The woman cries.
The Grohar brothers, grocers, induce workers to build a new store in Joliet, Illinois, during the Great Depression. Unemployed debtors including carpenters,brick layers,plasterers,grocers and other artisans work on building of a new store to pay off their due debts. The new store known as 'the store that friendship built'. A cement trolley on ground. Two men note. Workers paint roof. Workers eat food.
Training of Finnish Army troops in Finland. A troop riding on a horse leads other Finnish troops during a practice march. The troops march on a mud road. A dog at the side of the marching troops.
Training of Finnish Army troops in Finland. Troops march and halt near barracks. The troops stand at attention. They disperse. The soldiers come out of barracks. They take hot Finnish sauna with vihta branches and leaves.
Training of Finnish Army troops in Finland. Finnish troops run out of a building. The troops walk on a bridge. They dive in a pool of water and swim. The soldiers move out of water after the swim and wipe themselves.
Finnish Army troops play sports in Finland. The troops march for afternoon sports. They stand at attention and then disperse for the game. They take off their military uniform. Participants throw a heavy metal ball during a shot put event. A participant throws a heavy disc during a Discus throw match. The soldiers participate in javelin throw, long jump and high jump events. The participants stand at the starting line of a race. A man fires a starting gun for the race to begin.
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