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The U.S. National stock market craze during the "Roaring 20's" before the stock market crash.
An office entrance in Tacoma, Washington. Sign at door reads: "A.R. Blair & Co. Importers." A man smokes and reads the Tacoma Daily Ledger newspaper in his office. He reads the page with New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) prices for Thursday, August 30, 1928. A sign '"George R. McCall & Company, Stocks and Bonds, with offices at New York, Buffalo, Chicago & St. Louis." A number of the company's clients sit in chairs and watch as the latest stock prices are posted on display boards. Men are shown on the telephone communicating stock orders to their brokers. Hectic activity is seen on the New York Stock Exchange with floods of orders to buy and sell shares. Stock exchange number boards lit up with numbers. Men are seen in various places hovering over stock exchange ticker tapes running fast out of ticker tape machines. Scene of fireworks in the sky at the end (alluding to collapse of the stock market and the "Crash" on Wall Street that precipitated the Great Depression).
An armaments factory in the United States during World War I
Men work at fabricating siege mortar shells. A shell blank is heated over a furnace and then transported to a machine where it is formed, while still glowing, into the desired shell shape. A number of finished shells is shown in a yard. Next, men are seen welding the shells. Finally, men are shown filling them with gunpowder. They pound the gunpowder into the shells using wooden rams and wooden mallets (to avoid creating sparks). A worker is seen topping off a shell with gunpowder, from a ladle, pounding it tight, and fastening a cap on the top. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Ammunition manufacturing in the United States during World War I
Men and women work at belt-driven lathes on a crowded machine shop floor in an armaments factory during World War 1. A stack of machined shell cylinders sits on the floor. In another area of the munitions plant, workers are seen with large shells and caps for them. At another machine shop, workers turn large diameter shells in lathes. Camera pans across various work stations where different manufacturing processes are taking place. Closeup of a woman working on a standard size lathe, and of other women working in the machine shop. Men and women sealing hot shells and handling them large tongs. Women working on small caliber ammunition. Women stacking finished shell in trays. Women weighing out gunpowder into sacks, and others loading the sacks into boxes that they dump onto open shells, where women use them to fill shells. A group of women placing objects into shells (fuses?) and sealing them, as a superviser watches. A man taking the shells from a conveyer belt and packing them in boxes. Another area of the plant where items are packed into containers. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A seaplane being towed by a tugboat in the United States.
A Ford 5-AT Tri-motor Float plane is seen being moving under its own power in a river during tests in 1925. (Its first flight was in 1926.) Later, it is seen being towed close to a tugboat, by a line fastened to its nose. Two men in life jackets stand atop its wing, and several follow in a dory. Several men monitor the tow line from the back of the tugboat.
Different features of an M8 cargo carrier in the United States.
A film about use and importance of M8 cargo carriers. An M4 tractor and a 71/2 ton truck arrive. An M4 tractor pulls cargo as it moves through snow covered regions and muddy areas. A picture of an M4 tractor and a 71/2 truck. An M8 cargo carrier. The engine of the M8 cargo carrier. Soldiers board the cargo carrier. A 50 caliber machine gun mounted onto the cargo carrier. Rubber tires and suspension wheels of the M8. The M8 cargo carrier pulls artillery. A dozer at the nose of the M8 cargo carrier.
The historic Chittenden bridge across the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
A man poses looking at the Chittenden bridge crossing the Yellowstone River, in 1917. (Note: The bridge, a few miles south of Canyon Junction, was built in 1903 under the supervision of Hiram Martin Chittenden, the Seattle district engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers, and originally referred to simply as the Melan arch bridge. It was later renamed in Chittenden's honor. It was replaced in 1962 with the Chittenden Memorial bridge.)
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