25 Years Ago (Small private airplanes; Flexible Glass; Peace Demonstrations; WPA; Cheap Beer)

25 Years Ago (Small private airplanes; Flexible Glass; Peace Demonstrations; WPA; Cheap Beer) 06:51:06 Small airplane w/ V-8 engine wheeled out; started. 06:51:23 Overhead of plane w/ pusher propeller & twin tail, winner of Dept. of Commerce contest for fool-proof airplane. Taxiing, circling other planes & taking off over camera. 06:51:43 MCU of polishing machine & flexible glass pulled out. Hit w/ hammer w/o breaking. Tested by dropping large ball bearing on it, CU. Used as diving board, MCU. Car driven over showing strength, CUs. 06:52:11 NYC Protesting demonstrators against Italy aggression against Ethiopia w/ union & peace placards. People watch from fire escape. Mass of demonstrators. 06:52:28 Men sign up for New Deal’s WPA jobs. Pouring wheelbarrow of concrete. CU worn out tattered shoes. Kids out of dilapidated wooden one room school; large brick school house & kids leave. 06:52:51 Street corner beer hall w/ signs Schepps Beer, all you can drink $.60 per hour. Man at bar gulping down glasses of beer. Various groups of men & women drinking, toasting & singing (MOS). Depression; ca 1935; Aviation; Protesters; Post-Prohibition; Alcohol; Economics;