A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Earhart back to New York. Thousands of New Yorkers gather on streets and join the parade. Ticket tapes being showered on the parade. Earhart with New York Mayor Jimmy Walker. Holding flowers she christens a car.
Steeplechase Park stages its annual bathing Beauty contest for grandmothers at Coney Island in New York. Grandmothers in swimsuits participate in the contests. Judges mark the contestants. Mrs. Theresa Caffrey, aged 81, wins the contest.
Shows the Suburban Handicap derby event being held in New York City. Spectators cheer from their stands. Seven year old horse Kalso loses to Iron Peg by inches. Shows another derby event at Hollywood park in California. South African horse Colorado King wins the event.
Italian figure skater Anna Galmarini practice skating in New York, United States. Galmarini made her debut at an ice show in New York. Galmarini performs at an ice rink, demonstrating her skill in figure skating. Galmarini spins on ice.
British working men and their American counterparts on exchange visit in the United States. The group enter a building of the Star Electric Motor Company. Inside they are seen sitting in on a labor-management committee meeting. The British workers ask whether the company's worker suggestion program is successful. The company managers say it has and helped increase war production. The British ask about having any deadlocks in labor-management relations, affecting war production, and are told the U.S. War Production Board would be called upon to resolve such a matter. The issue of continuing such labor-management cooperation after the war is discussed. (World War II period)
Telephone wires manufactured at a factory in United States. Coating of lead is applied over the wires. Wire reels are handled in factory. Employees work on a telephone switchboard in New York City.
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