Jacques Piccard sets a new height record in Dubendorf, Switzerland. Piccard and Max Cosyns set off for a balloon trip to study the effects of cosmic rays. Jacques Piccard looks out from an all metal globular gondola. The balloon with the gondola sets off for its flight in the upper stratosphere. Piccard speaks with an officer before the flight. Photographers take pictures.
Thousands of workers get back to work in the United States. A group of workers works on equipment inside a machine manufacturing plant in New Jersey. The workers welding inside the factory. Workers collect onions from fields in Kenton, Ohio. Workers increase the production of washing machine in Chicago.
National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio. Open Stadium is packed with spectators. Al Wilson dons his flying helmet and flies a Curtiss Pusher replica, performing aerobatics, including an inside loop. Glider pilot Jack O'Meara performs for the crowd, landing in the grass and smiling for the camera. (Note: Flier Al Wilson was killed later during these same Cleveland aviation events, when his 1910 Curtiss plane collided with an autogyro during landing.)
National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio. American Aerial Aces perform various stunts in air with their airplanes. One of the aircraft lands on ground. Buildings in the background. Ben Howard and Harold Neumann swooning in closed course events. Al Wilson in his biplane. John Runger wing-walks on a looping and spinning plane. Spectators watch the show seated on bleachers. Squadrons of service ships from Selfridge Field and Quantico in Virginia display various stunts.
Views of soft coal mine at Cadiz,Ohio United States. Text 'safety first' carved on the stones of a tunnel. Men coming out of the tunnel. People burn things during a workers strike against the mine operators over pay grievances. Management sends non union laborers on job. Armed U.S. National Guard soldiers in position to control the mob. Guard stands outside a wooden house. Men give first aid to an injured man. A guard stands near the rail track while a coal loaded trolley train passes through the tunnel.
Andrew W Mellon former U.S. Secretary of Treasury leaves a ship and arrives at Waterloo railway station in London England. Steam locomotive pulling passenger cars pulls into the railroad station. People welcome Secretary Mellon in the station. Mellon is escorted by the guards. He proceeds in a car to the American Embassy where he greets British dignitaries including Sir Patrick Duff. Mellon takes charge as U.S. new ambassador to the nation.
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