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Newsreels: 1937 - March 20
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keywords: tragedies and disasters, natural gas explosion, consolidated grade and high school, mass casualties, church burials, sports, speed boat racing, biscayne bay regatta, social unrest and protest, union worker strikes, pilot amelia earhart, co-pilot fred noonan, lockheed electra 10e twin-engine aircraft, wwii, north africa, libya, dictator benito mussolini of italy, new york harbor, ocean liner ss normandie, bonneville dam project, columbia river, removing cofferdam, lottery, irish sweepstakes, bar interior, drinks on the house, parody, satire, john q. dohp, losing irish sweepstakes, beauty pageant, us snow queen
Synopsis: Texas School Explosion Claims 426 Children, 426 Children Laid To Rest Victims Of Texas School Explosion, Miami FL Hosts Biscayne Bay Regatta Speed Boat Races, Union Workers Strike Across The Country, Pilot Amelia Earhart First Attempt At Round The World Flight, Dictator Benito Mussolini Of Italy Visits Libya, S.S. Normandie Leaves New York Harbor, A Temporary Cofferdam Is Destroyed In Bonneville Dam Project, Brooklyn Bar Owner Wins Irish Sweepstakes, Everyman Sweepstakes Loser John Q. Dohp Loses Again, Montreal Flurry Meagre Greeting to U.S. Snow Queen...(read more)
- Date: 1937
- Duration: 00:11:03
- Sound: Partial
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Libya
Texas School Explosion Claims 426 Children
426 Children die in explosion at the Consolidated Grade and High School in New London, Texas due to a natural gas leak on March 18, 1937. Scenes of rescue workers work digging through the concrete and masonry debris to reach the bodies of the children. Shows a automobile crushed by a large piece of concrete thrown clear of the building.
426 Children Laid To Rest Victims Of Texas School Explosion
Gruesome ranks of coffins hold the mutilated bodies of 426 children as a grief-stricken community buries its dead. Scenes at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Rusk County, Texas.
Miami FL Hosts Biscayne Bay Regatta Speed Boat Races
Roaring power boats dashing over the course in the Biscayne Bay Regatta at Miami, Florida is a big attraction for winter visitors to Florida.
Union Workers Strike Across The Country
Events in the Five and Dime strike in New York City, the auto workers in Detroit Michigan, and Hosiery strike at Reading, PA. In 1937. Picket line of workers on strike carrying placards signs in front of a FW Woolworth Co store in New York City during an effort to unionize the city's retail workers. Striking workers in Detroit Michigan. Striking workers in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Pilot Amelia Earhart First Attempt At Round The World Flight
CU image of Amelia Earhart and Earhart posing with Paul Mantz, technical specialist, Harry Manning, navigator, and Fred Noonan, co-pilot and assistant navigator in front of her plane in Hawaii March 20, 1937. Pilot Amelia Earhart taking off from NAS US Naval Air Station Oakland, California in her Lockheed Electra on her first attempt to fly west-to-east around the world. The first leg of the flight was Oakland to Hawaii with her first attempt to fly around the world ending when she ground-looped the plane on take-off from Ford Island, Hawaii.
Dictator Benito Mussolini Of Italy Visits Libya
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini making a state visit to Italian Libya North Africa in March 1937 where he opened a new military highway running the entire length of the Italian colony.
S.S. Normandie Leaves New York Harbor
The ocean liner SS Normandie leaves New York City harbor on a voyage to Europe that regained the Blue Ribbon of The Atlantic supremacy in ocean transportation between Europe and America. Skyline of New York city in 1937.
A Temporary Cofferdam Is Destroyed In Bonneville Dam Project
Blasting of a huge cofferdam after part of the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River was completed in 1937.
Brooklyn Bar Owner Wins Irish Sweepstakes
Inside a bar of drinks are on the house after a bar owner won $75,000 with a lucky Irish Sweepstakes Irish Sweeps ticket.
Everyman Sweepstakes Loser John Q. Dohp Loses Again
John Q. Dohp, last year's Disconsolate Sweeps Loser explaining another defeat in Universal City, California. Hit on head by falling bricks.
Montreal Flurry Meagre Greeting to U.S. Snow Queen
US Snow Queen from Oregon crowned in 1937.
