Athletes ready to run during Annual Road Event at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Athletes run. Speed ace leads Vernon Frank and William Geissman and hordes of plodders over course to finish in 21 minutes, 32 seconds.
A motorcycle and car stunt show at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Four men, dubbed 'The Cytricks Group,' ride four motor cycles while holding each others hands. They display various formations on a motorcycle while it is driven down the track. A clown travels down the track riding a mini bike. Men from the Transworld Auto Daredevils drive cars and perform stunts for the spectators. As a demolition stunt, they crash a car advertising 'Super Auto Parts' into a car advertising 'Litsinger Bonds' after jumping it off a ramp. They then drive a car through a fire ring.
The inventor of steel plow Major Leonard Andrus being honored in Grand Detour, Illinois. A cattle pulls a plow at a field as eight thousand men and women look on. A stone with a sculpture of Leonard Andrus on it. A man works on a wooden plow. A couple pushes a plow on a field. Models on a tractor with steel plows attached to it.
United States engineers at Chanute Field, Illinois. Engineers work on equipment inside an aircraft factory. Americans prepare for defense as war accelerates in Europe during World War II. New guns, warships and warplanes being manufactured.
Parachutist jump and set a new record at Chanute Field in Illinois, United States. Ten parachutists board a transport aircraft. A close up of heads and faces of the men framed in the circular doorway of the aircraft. The C-3 transport aircraft in flight. The parachutists jump one after the other. They descend towards the earth. Eight parachutes descend. The airmen who made to jump.
A large number of automobiles parked in a field, crowd looking up at the sky during an airshow. Douglas Corrigan (famous for his wrong way flight from New York to Dublin, Ireland), standing with several girls in bath suits. A Piper J-3 Cub fitted with pontoons lands on a grassy field. Seversky EP-1 (civilian version of the military P-35 aircraft), with Jacqueline Cochran at the controls, taxis after winning the Bendix Trophy Race in 1938. Mr. Vincent Bendix congratulates Miss Cochran after winning the race. Several P-35s in different flight formations. Paratroopers jump from a ford tri-motor aircraft, views of paratroopers descending. Views of four aircrafts with smoke trailing, taking off and doing acrobatic stunts including inside and outside loops. Jacqueline Cochran at the controls of a Seversky EP-1 landing at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, completing a Trans-continental flight, after winning the Bendix Trophy race.
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