Planes flying around a tower during National Air Race. One of the planes land. Crowd around watch. Wreckage of the plane amidst the crowd. Lieutenant P DeShazo,naval pilot is killed in the plane crash. Authorities make a human circle around the crashed plane to avoid spectators
Arthur Woods, former New York Police Commissioner raises his hat and smiles in Washington DC, during his role as chairman of President Herbert Hoover's Committee on Employment. Scenes of construction projects underway providing work during the Great Depression: A huge construction site with work in progress building many high rise buildings. A large dam being built. A large crane moving material to a bridge from ground. Workers engaged in welding work. Sparks at the welding site. A large crane moving iron. Workers building giant ships in shipyards. Workers walk on docks beside a ship under construction in a shipyard.
Captain Hemphill with others gathered at a place. General Mark L Hersey, retired 4th Division Commander, presents Captain Hemphill a plaque for his valor. All gathered members cheer him. Captain Hemphill with others move to visit his old company at United States hospital in Aspinwall
Federal and local agents, together with laborers raiding a moonshine still site in a forest during Prohibition in the United States. Tall shack explodes, blown up by agents. Smoke arises from the raided site. The shack collapses at the site. Officials in uniform with others gather near the place to check the fallen house. Laborers with sledge hammers demolish a liquor distillation still. Liquor barrels are emptied onto ground by enforcement authorities.
Footage from the Prohibition period in the United States. A man holds a beer mug. He smiles and drinks from the mug. Men and women sit together at a speakeasy bar. Liquor bottles and filled glasses on the bar. They drink and smile. They are dressed well, in suits and bowler hats (derby hats). One man is in a tuxedo with tophat. Women in late 1920's fashions.
Propeller of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter to be launched. Another ship in water at the port. Two uniformed U.S. Coast Guard officers talk. (The one on the left is possibly U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Frederick C. Billard). Two dock workers use a two-man saw to cut away holding timbers. The Coast Guard cutter slides over track and enters water. Men at port watch the cutter move in water. The ship turns to the starboard.
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