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Byron Connett makes a trial voyage in a tiny underwater submarine craft at Michigan City, Indiana.

Byron Connett makes a trial voyage in a tiny underwater craft at Michigan city, Indiana. Byron Connett gets inside the small submarine craft that accomodates one person. "Powered by Kathanode" seen written near the entry hatch (Kathanode brand battery). The underwater craft powered with an electric motor travels below the surface at 9MPH. Periscope seen sticking out above the sub as it moves.

Date: 1938, September 7
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022389
Chicago police burn a quarter-million dollars worth of packaged heroin, opium, marijuana in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago police officials burn a quarter-million dollars worth of packaged heroin, opium, marijuana in Chicago, Illinois. Officials mound captured illegal drugs into a pile. They display paraphernalia including pipes and needles that are used by addicts. Police officers inspect pipes. They pour liquid fuel over the drugs and ignite it on fire. The pile of narcotics going up in flames.

Date: 1936, October 5
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022414
Pickets clash with police outside the Berkshire Knitting Mill in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania during labor strike.

Picketing demonstrators clash with police at textile workers strike during the Great Depression. Pickets march outside the Knitting Mill in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Police fire huge quantities of tear gas. A picket sign is held by a police officer.

Date: 1936, October 5
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022415
A reversible propeller tested at Burbank, California.

A reversible aircraft propeller tested at Burbank, California. Demonstration of airplane screw with varying pitch, permits plane to back up, climb at greater angles and come to short stops after landing. Man gives a flag signal. View of the biplane aircraft taking off and landing. On landing it comes to a quick stop and immediately into a brisk reverse back toward a hangar.

Date: 1934, July 4
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022425
Federal government reimburses patrons of defunct Fon Du Lac Bank by cashing their accounts in full under FDIC guarantee

The U.S. Federal government in its first reimbursement action through the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) created through the Banking Act of 1933, during the Great Depression. Government reimbursing the patrons of the failed Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois. Crowd gathered outside Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois, waiting to get in. Man shaking hands with Mrs. Lydia Lobsiger, the first customer to receive her money back through the FDIC program. Banking customers receive one hundred percent of their deposit amounts. Women and men approach the counter and bank teller counts dollar bills to pay citizens. A young boy wearing a cap stands by the window. Bank teller examines his account book and then lays out coins for the boy. The child carefully slides the money off the counter, counting it as he goes.

Date: 1934, July 4
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022427
Police battle the Union pickets to quell rioting Longshoremen at San Francisco, California.

Police battle the Union pickets at the port of San Francisco, California. Police officers on horses, clash with demonstrators during labor stirke. Officers fire guns and tear gas to quell rioting Longshoremen. People gather around a wounded man. Riot scene with vehicles toppled, on the streets of strike-paralyzed port.

Date: 1934, July 4
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022429