Customers deposits are returned to them under the auspices of officials who have placed the bank under Federal Receivership. Depositors hadn't been able to make withdrawals,due to the National Financial Crisis. U.S. receivers in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. Interior of bank and people inside. An official speaks on 'repayment of frozen deposits in National bank'. He credits Federal Government for this positive action made possible by enactment of the Reconstruction Finance Commission Act and the Home Owner's Loan corporation Act.
The Palmer Raids in the United States during the so-called "Red Scare" period. Police in New York City arrest men and women, suspected of being anarchists and radicals. Police wielding clubs raid their homes, arrest them and place them in police vans. The arrested suspects are taken to Ellis Island by ferry for deportation.
Aviator Stanislaus Hausner and his aircraft disappear over the Atlantic Ocean during a trip to Poland from Floyd Bennett Field in New York, United States. Past events show men towing a Bellanca CH Pacemaker aircraft out of a hangar on Barren Island. Aviator Stanislaus Hausner stands beside the aircraft with his wife Martha. They kiss and pose for the camera. The aircraft taxis and takes off from an airstrip. The aircraft gains altitude.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) plays host to civilian newsreel cameramen for the first time in Groton. Nautilus submarine departs for New York from Groton. Navy personnel at controls aboard USS Nautilus. Men eat at tables aboard the Nautilus. The Nautilus enters New York Harbor. View of boats spraying water with Manhattan Island skyscrapers of New York City in background. Also view of the USS Nautilus surfaced in the harbor, with the skyline of Manhattan behind.
Scenes of various atomic bomb tests conducted by America during a course of time. Shows the atomic bomb test in Alamogordo, New Mexico(1945). Nuclear weapons tests for shot Able and shot Baker, tested at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Crossroads(1946). Close -up view of massive nuclear explosion at sea seen from shore with blast wave approaching unmanned ships near harbor and a palm tree on shore seen waving dramatically. Atomic bomb tests at the Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) In the Marshall Island as part of Operation Sandstone (1948). (World War II period).
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands on 26th of October, 1942 during World War II. U.S. aircraft take off from U.S. Navy USS Hornet (CV-8) carrier at dawn. Members of crew on U.S. carrier look through binoculars. Japanese bombers formation overhead. Gun crews of USS Hornet (CV-8) attack the Japanese aircraft. Japanese aircraft in flames crash. Flak bursts in sky. USS Hornet gets torpedoed and bombed heavily. USS Hornet burns. The crew abandons the USS Hornet. Members of the crew board rescue boats. USS Hornet being sunk by torpedo attacks at night. Wounded men transferred to other U.S. ships and taken ashore. New ships being launched from shipyards in United States.
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