Travelers make a booking for travel in the R.M.S. Queen Mary ocean liner inside the booking office of Thomas Cook & Son’s travel agency. Man fills up a form while a couple view brochure. A sign reads “Bookings Here R.M.S. Queen Mary”. Hand filling up a form. A couple speaks to the travel agent. Clients booking trips through travel agents in desks. Man shakes hands with clients. Travel agents fill up forms, answer phone calls and speak to clients inside the office.
Wintertime View, after snowfall, with snow banks along Fifth Avenue in New York City. Taxis and buses moving on the avenue. Door mat reads:"587 Thos. Cook & Son." Pedestrians in winter coats and hats. People enter and come out of door marked 'American Express Company'. Men standing under sign 'Thos. Cook and Son Wagons-Lits Inc.'. People entering travel office of 'Thos. Cook and Son'. Empire State Building visible in mist in background.
French Ocean liner "S.S. Normandie" near port of New York City. The SS Normandie ocean liner arrives under cover of a smoke screen laid down around it by airmen to protect it from attack. Large smokestacks of the ship are seen. Another passenger liner underway.
A Scottish Terrier named Sandy sits on the table of a veterinary Doctor. Bottles of medicine are seen in background. The Doctor performed a stomach operation to save the dogs life, removing lodged pieces of a bone that the dog had eaten. The Doctor shows the X-ray report of the dog and holds up the bone pieces that were removed. Blood transfusion is performed on the dog. Another dog is seen with the nurses. The owner takes the bandaged dog back with her after treatment and leaves the clinic, walking with her dog down the street.
An angry property owner locks his automobile to a tree in an effort to halt a pipeline ditch in New York City. The ditch is being dug through his plot. The workmen burrow around his automobile. The owner is forced to abandon his blockade.
Window washers hang in the air by thread-like belts hundreds of feet above ground. They clean the panes of the huge Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). Breeze whips the men as they cling to narrow perches. Men on the streets raise their heads to look at the window washers above.