Final checks are made before the launch of German V2-Rocket at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Jeeps loaded with men are driven to side of a hill to await the launching of rocket. Rocket is launched. A trail of white smoke is emitted as the rocket leaves the ground. A cub plane takes off a runway and is airborne.
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.
Display of Johnson Quality Homes in John Vanamaker's 'Village of Vision', in New York. Woman and girl look at the model of a modern kitchen in one of the modern house concept models. The models of modern kitchens displayed on a turntable. Designs of kitchens with shelves, refrigerator, tables and chairs.
A failed V-2 rocket test at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. A United States V-2 rocket is being transported in a carrier to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. V-2 rocket in launch tower. The V-2 rocket launches from the launch pad. Shortly after take-off, the V-2 rocket veers off course, beginning its descent. V-2 rocket crashes and explodes, creating a thick cloud of smoke.