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Aviator Howard Hughes dines over lunch in Chicago and then sets speed record in flight to Los Angeles

Crew work on Howard Hughes' rented Northrop Gamma 2G (NR13761) aircraft, before his speed record setting flight from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1936. View of the Northrop Gamma 2G aircraft from tail. Scene changes to interior of a Chicago restaurant where Howard Hughes is having lunch with a friend. He stands, preparing to exit and fly, with the goal of having dinner in Los Angeles the same day. Airport terminal buildings in background as Hughes pilots the aircraft, and taxis before takeoff. View of the aircraft after take off and in flight overhead. It set a new speed record, reaching Los Angeles in 8 hours and 10 minutes, and traveling at 215 mph.

Date: 1936, May 14
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070376
A Universal Newsreel cameraman dies while covering the news of a fire in a grain elevator in Chicago, Illinois.

Fire in a grain elevator in Chicago, Illinois. Firemen work to control the fire. Smoke rises from the fire. A Universal Newsreel cameraman dies while covering the news. Ruins of a granary.

Date: 1957, January 24
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070380
America's first jet transport takes off and flies from Seattle to Baltimore in the United States.

America's first jet transport takes off from Seattle, Washington. The airplane takes off from a runway. The airplane sets a new transcontinental speed mark with a non-stop flight from Seattle to Baltimore in 3 hours and 48 minutes. High altitude view of an area. The airplane in flight over sea. A ship underway at sea.

Date: 1957, March 11
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070388
Dr. Milton Stover Eisenhower presents a million and a half dollar contribution for a malaria campaign in Washington DC, U.S.

A malaria campaign in the United States. Exterior of Pan American Union Building in Washington DC. Dr. Milton Stover Eisenhower, brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with some officials. He presents a cheque of a million and a half dollar contribution to aid the malaria campaign.

Date: 1957, March 11
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070389
Equipment is loaded and soldiers board railroad cars at railroad stations in the United States (WW2)

Role of U.S. railroads during World War II. Soldiers and officers walk carrying personal belongings in the United States. They enter a building. Railroad freight cars parked on a railroad station. Tanks and artillery parked. Transport and equipment loaded on flat cars moving along a track. Soldiers entrain for a war front. A railroad train carrying U.S. troops and cargo moves along a railway track, with the black locomotive approaching camera position.

Date: 1945, July 30
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070404
American aviator Lincoln J. Beachey flies an aircraft and stunts it in the United States.

The history of aviation. The Wright aircraft in flight in the United States. The aircraft flies close to the ground. American aviator Lincoln J. Beachey stunts a Curtiss model aircraft. He flies the aircraft low over a road. A crowd along a fence watches him. Beachey adjusts his crash helmet. A stunt man stands on the wing of an aircraft in flight. 'Jersey Ringling' written on the aircraft. The stunt man grabs hold of a bar attachment under a wing. He hangs from it after switching airplanes by leg and hand only. He then releases his hand hold and swings using his legs.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070417