Snow covered Chinook Pass in Washington. Rotary snow plow and three bulldozers used to clean the forty feet snowdrift at the highway. Mountain ranges in the background. The roads cleared.
A huge Soviet Russian aircraft in flight above Valley Stream in New York. It is a unarmed Tupolev TB-1 (ANT-4) bomber, with lettering on side: "URSS-300", and was known as "Land of the Soviets" or "Soviet Country". The plane lands at Curtiss Field (also called Roosevelt Field that year) after completing a 13,000 mile journey from Moscow. A huge crowd tries to break the security lines to meet the airmen. Several cars parked on the airfield. Police try to control the crowds. The crowd rushes towards the plane. A police man riding a motorcycle. near the crowd, with the airplane parked behind.
Guggenheim Aircraft Competition at Mitchel Field in New York. American planes and planes from other countries participate in the competition for $150,000 prize money. A pilot enters the cockpit of a plane and takes off. A British plane 'Handley-Page' shows it's 'safety' slotted wings. The British plane in flight. The rules require quick take off and short stops of the planes.
Demonstration of a new amphibious vehicle at Tillamook in Oregon. The automobile rides as easily on water as it rides on land. 'Laurette' written on the amphibious vehicle. Men in the vehicle.
Ocean Liner S.S. Queen Mary brought safely to pier in New York without aid. Smoke rises from the smokestacks of the ship. It is docked safely despite a tugboat strike. Sailors aboard the ship. Commodore Irving skipper of the ship attributes the feat to his luck and his St. Christopher medal. He shows his medal.
A Norwegian girl sails all the way from Oslo to New York to marry the man she loves in a small sailboat. The 45 feet small sailboat named 'Colin Archer' underway. The boat reaches the harbor. The man gives her flowers. A group of people gather to meet her. The couple kisses each other.
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