Daredevil driver takes turn at high speed and flips his car. Paramedics rush at the crash. Daredevil biker jumps out of flaming inferno. View of heavily crowed Memphis Stadium. Demolition head on collision between stunt cars at high speeds. Injured driver taken away by paramedics in ambulance. Wrecked cars pulled out of stadium by towing trucks.November 1934.
Senator William Edgar Borah,Republican Senator from Idaho,addresses in a conference in Washington DC. Borah warns U.S. to pay heed to Washington's advice and continue adopting the Monroe Doctrine as part of U.S. National Defense.1939.
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.
The Boeing-314 Yankee Clipper also known as the flying Hotel or Boat docked at the Pan American Base in Florida. Crew officials dressed in uniforms pose for camera. Clipper takes off for a transatlantic flight to Azores and Europe. Many gather to bid farewell.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 standing at Ingalls Shipyard. Workers remove wooden support beams beneath the ship. Young woman sponsor, Mary Maud Farrell, on occasion, with rose in hand. Bystanders bid farewell when Comet leaves dock area. (Ship was later renamed the USS Arthur Middleton AP-55, APA-25).
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