United Nations meeting in Flushing Meadows, New York. U.S. ambassador to the UN , Edward Stettinius, is seen at conference table, seated next to Sir Alexander Catogan, of the United Kingdom. Meeting adjourns and members prepare to depart.
Basket Ball season opens in New York. Match between City College of New York (CCNY) and Idaho. Spectators in the Madison Square Garden. Score by CCNY. Referee in the Court. Spectators cheer. CCNY wins the match by 46-35.
Fashion models display the latest collections by renowned costume jewelry designer Trifari in New York City. Two women in elegant black dresses. Woman displays earrings and glittery hair clips. A woman shows off her arrow-shaped diamond earring. A diamond jewelry set in a box. A man puts it on a woman's neck. A model shows the necklace with earrings. A model with different hairstyles shows the jewelry designs. A woman takes off her coat, showing a crown-shaped brooch (designed by Alfred Philippe) made of cabochons or dazzling clear rhinestones on her chest.
Bernard Baruch, advisor of the President of the United States during World War I and II, arrives at the headquarters of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Major General Leslie Groves, Secretary-General of the United Nations Trygve Lie and other civil and military experts also present at the headquarters. Baruch speaks about the International atomic control. He suggests to stop manufacturing new atom bombs and destroy those already made.
Newsreel titled 'Victims of Nazi Rule Welcomed'. The U.S. ship "Marine Flasher" carrying European Refugees arrives at a harbor in New York in the year after the end of World War 2. A huge crowd waits at the harbor. The refugees are welcomed with warmth by their relatives and friends in an emotional environment. Man given a warm hug by his relatives. A woman and her child. Sobbing woman welcomes her loved one. Mother and child, and two other women show prisoner number tattoos on their arms, administered by the German Nazis in a concentration camp.
Post war growth of housing in U.S. including advent of suburban home models. Display of Johnson Quality Homes in John Vanamaker's 'Village of Vision', in New York. People talk to a woman at reception desk. Woman at the desk hand over a literature to them. People moving inside a hall check display designs of a house. Woman moves out of the house. A man checks price list of various homes and makes notes on his catalog of house models. Woman at the reception area assists him.