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Celebrating the Repeal of 18th Amendment and Prohibition
Hundreds of workers walking into factory / aerial view of a city at night / people dancing in nightclub / group of men and women raising glasses at night club table / costumed dancers on stage.
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Alcohol manufacturing resumes after 18th Amendment repeal
Worker inside a barrel factory shaping outside of a wooden keg / wooden barrels rolling down an assembly line / workers allow barrels to roll into the streets / truck carrying barrels of alcohol / government agents taking axe to whiskey...
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Prohibition workers destroy illegal alcohol still in the woods
Alcohol distillery in forest explodes blowing smoke and spilling debris into the surrounding forest / smoke clears and men both uniformed and plain clothed walk into the bomb site / men climb through the debris searching through the...
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Miners near Cincinnati find gold in creek
Men working with mining equipment on farm / rocks fly down a mining trough towards waiting workers / people pan for gold Miners near Cincinnati find gold in creek on November 09, 1933 in Owensville, Ohio
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German workers abandon strike and return to work
Hundreds of German middle class workers walking through downtown Berlin, happy, smiling and greeting friends / workers board trains. German workers abandon strike and return to work on December 01, 1930 in Berlin, Germany
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Men and women factory workers
/ Building front sign, reads MICHIGAN EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION / Interior, pan of women and men standing in line / Men punch time cards, punch clock / pan of people standing in line on January 01, 1959 (Footage by Getty Images)
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B/W 1931 Mother Jordan serving food quickly with both hands at soup kitchen / San Francisco
B/W 1931 Mother Jordan serving food quickly with both hands at soup kitchen / San Francisco
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B/W 1931 men pouring pots of stew into containers, Mother Jordan starts serving at soup kitchen
B/W 1931 men pouring pots of stew into containers, Mother Jordan starts serving at soup kitchen
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American scrap metal purchased by Japan
/ huge containers of scrap metal in the middle of a city / views of scrap metal loaded onto the back of boats headed to Japan / scrap metal was later used to make shells in WWII. American scrap metal purchased by Japan on November 05,...
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B/W 1936 REAR VIEW couple watching fully loaded car pulling into migrant worker camp
B/W 1936 REAR VIEW couple watching fully loaded car pulling into migrant worker camp
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B/W 1931 Mother Jordan helping man take off shirt + put on new one at soup kitchen
B/W 1931 Mother Jordan helping man take off shirt + put on new one at soup kitchen
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TVA Electricity Project
Hydroelectric plant, men cleaning equipment and mopping floor / completed, operational hydroelectric dam / men working atop electric distribution tower - transformer - electric grid / electric distribution project, electric cable being...
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New York Stock Exchange president Richard Whitney interviewed
Title card: "Head of New York Stock Exchange Discusses Raids" / "Editor's Note: In this important statement, President Richard Whitney tells what Exchange has done about short selling in Wall Street and predicts restoration of...
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During Great Depression US Senator Pat Harrison speaking in Washington, DC, in support of President Herbert Hoover's banking plan
Title card: "Senator Pat Harrison endorses Hoover banking plan to restore confidence" / title card: "Editor's note: In this important statement, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee sounds a clarion call to all...
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Gerard Swope receives award for his plan to stabilize industry
Title card: "Owen D. Young Presents Medal to Swope for Employment Plan" / WS large NBC microphone in front of tuxedoed Young presenting Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, with gold medal from National Institute of Social...
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During Great Depression, jobless veterans arrive in Washington, DC, to demand immediate cash payment of their service certificates
Title card: "Jobless veterans swell Bonus Army seeking payment - Groups from all sections assemble for free transportation under eyes of police" / pan across large crowd of veterans / veterans walking through crowd / two shots of...
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Philadelphia mayor inaugurates business assistance program in 1932
Title card: "Philadelphia helps prosperity campaign - Mayor Moore and prominent motion picture executives inaugurate move to business" / Mayor Joseph Hampton Moore stands with a group of men; he speaks with a man in a light-colored suit...
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Politician speaks vehemently in early-1930s Washington, DC
MS and CU headshot man in dark suit speaks in front of black curtain, speaking vehemently; he might be criticizing Pres. Herbert Hoover's plan to fight deflation / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
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Standing outdoors, US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills reads a statement
[NO AUDIO - FOR AUDIO OF THIS STATEMENT, SEE SR003979_01_03 AND/OR SR003979-01_04] CU head shot US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills, standing outdoors, reads from a document; he finishes, moves away / Note: exact year not known;...
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Audio of US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills' statement about Pres. Herbert Hoover's plan to aid the economy
[AUDIO ONLY/VIDEO AVAILABLE ON SR003979_01_01 AND/OR SR003979_01_02] VO US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills reads statement concerning Pres. Herbert Hoover's plan; mentions hoarding of money; credit; "this is deflation"; two-part program...