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).
U.S. army soldiers at a drill at training camp at Fort Belvoir.A soldier tests flamethrower at dummy target and sets it ablaze.View of clouded fumes rising above burning target.June1941. (World War II period).
Workers at Vultee Plant assemble various parts of Vultee BT-13 planes in Downey CA. Assembly of wings can be seen. Workers work at main frame of plane and attach it to motored rotor blades. A completed BT-13 exits the assembly line out in open for testing.June 1941.
Models arrives by plane at Leatherneck Marine Base in Quantico. U.S. Marines welcome the guests. Models watch a columnized marines parade .Dressed in swimming costumes, models cat-walk over ramp above pool while marines swim and enjoy the show. Several marines plunge into pool to accompany models. A young marine in pool with model in arms poses for camera. June1941.
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