War Admiral wins Washington Handicap horse race at Laurel Park Racecourse (198 Laurel Race Track Rd, Laurel, MD 20725, United States) in Laurel, Maryland. War Admiral with his jockey Charles Kurtsinger on the racing track. Spectators seated in stands. The race starts. Spectators in the stand watch the race and cheer. War Admiral wins the race.
Tornado in Rodessa, Louisiana. Fallen trees in the town due to tornado. Damaged buildings and ruins. A wrecked car in the foreground as a car drives on a road. A view of the damage caused in the town. Men walk on the ruins. They search dead bodies in the rubble.
Woman explorer, Ruth McCombs Harkness, (widow of explorer, William Harkness) brought the first live panda (named Su-Lin) into the United States, when she returned from an expedition, on December 18, 1936. Here she is seen in the Brookfield Zoo, in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois, where she is playing with a second baby panda (named Mei Mei) that she acquired in 1937. A large group of boys and girls, enjoy the antics as she plays with the baby panda. At one point, Mrs. Harkness lifts Mei Mei up close to the children. Next, she holds Mei Mei close to Su-Lin, as zookeeper Sam Parratt holds the larger panda. The two pandas nuzzle one another.
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E) welcomes Motion Picture Producer Sidney Kent in Cleveland, Ohio. President of American Federation of Labor William Green and George Browne, union head with Sidney Kent as they walk out of a building. Kent shakes hand with Green and Browne. (With limited, irregular sound.)
West Point Military Academy cadets being shown the latest war equipment at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. The cadets stand in a circle and a tank in the foreground. A cadet seated inside a M2 Light tank (nicknamed "Mae West") and drives the tank. The cadets applaud. The cadets watch the tank as it rolls on the ground. A tank rolls down a slope into water and splashes water up toward the cadets. Demonstrations of heavy artillery guns and howitzers: Soldiers load shells in a large field gun. They fire the gun and cadets close their ears with fingers. Another large field gun fires and cadets stand around the artillery. The last gun demonstrated is possibly an 8 inch gun M1888 and is shown on a disappearing carriage that retracts the gun back and down following its recoil after firing.
Midshipmen from United States Naval Academy at a dock in Annapolis, Maryland. A midshipman kisses a woman. Midshipmen stand in formation at a dock. Small tenders at the dock. The 1100 Navy midshipman board the boats. They are seated in the boats and wave as the boats set out approaching a nearby docked U.S. Navy battleship. U.S. flag in the foreground and cadets waving as they prepare to embark on a summer trip with Le Havre, France as their first stop.
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