High altitude view of Beartooth Mountains overlooking Wyoming. Bounty hunters with rifles and binoculars take positions at several locations around Beartooth. Group of Wyoming National guards put dead body of an outlaw in truck. A note written by legendary outlaw Earl Durand to Sheriff Blackburn and a bullet on top of it. View of First National Bank in Powell Wyoming. Several bullet holes can seen on the walls and gate of the bank. A 17 year old boy, Tipton Cox, poses for camera with his rifle after shooting Durand. March 1939.
Approximately 120 strikers confront 1000 non-unionized workers and try to stop the reopening of the Newton steel plant in Monroe Michigan. Initially ,the pickets, armed with clubs and rocks, are able to prevent non-union workers from driving into the plant. The strikers are then outnumbered and scattered after being confronted by forces armed with tear gas. The picket line breaks and cars begin driving through to the plant. Strikers continue to fight, attempting to pull non-union workers out of their cars. The strikers are again attacked with tear gas, and they run into an orchard. The strikers cars are overturned or pushed into the river. The National Guard is summoned by Governor Murphy to take over and restore order. A union spokesman gives a speech, declaring that the union will get into Monroe eventually.
View of the first all-welded passenger ship, the C-3 African Comet before launch at Ingalls Shipyard. Workers remove wooden support beams beneath the ocean liner. Young woman sponsor, Mary Maud Farrell, on occasion, with rose in hand. Bystanders bid farewell when the ship leaves dock area. (Ship was later renamed the USS Arthur Middleton AP-55, APA-25).
Workers at Vultee Plant assemble various parts of Vultee BT-13 planes in Downey CA. Assembly of wings can be seen. Workers work at main frame of plane and attach it to motored rotor blades. A completed BT-13 exits the assembly line out in open for testing.June 1941.
Models arrives by plane at Leatherneck Marine Base in Quantico. U.S. Marines welcome the guests. Models watch a columnized marines parade .Dressed in swimming costumes, models cat-walk over ramp above pool while marines swim and enjoy the show. Several marines plunge into pool to accompany models. A young marine in pool with model in arms poses for camera. June1941.
Athletes take part in various track and field events at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. A hurdle race takes place in the background while an athlete pole vaults. Athletes running in a 400 meters event. Close up of athlete Grover Klemmer after he breaks 400 meter world record. 1941.
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