A documentary on Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Center in Miami, Florida. Aftermath of a hurricane. Women seated inside a building of the Red Cross. They attend several calls of people asking for their relatives and friends. People searching for their belongings in the rubble. Aerial view of the rubbled area. Officers discussing amongst themselves. Aircraft parked at an air base. Men boarding an airplane. The aircraft in flight overhead.
The services of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States. Skilled workers are hired for the libraries and school. They repair and rebind the books. Books in shelves. Traveling libraries and mobile libraries in trucks bring books to more rural areas. People enter a traveling library on wheels. Nurses visit homes of people and instructing the maternity care of the children to their mothers. A nurse bathing an infant. Braille maps being developed. The blind people are instructed about the use of the Braille maps. Trachoma eye disease patients in rural areas are examined. Nurses examine them and they are taken to WPA clinics. Group of men, women, and children wait in clinic to be seen by nurse or doctor. People including a young girl and an older man taking eye and vision tests, reading eye charts, and being examined.
A bank closing during the Great Depression in Chicago, Illinois. A board reads: 'Standard National Bank' outside building of the failed bank. Cars parked outside the building. A board on the entrance of the bank reads: 'For Rent. Edwin J Nelson'. A man entering the bank. Men seated at counters in the bank. Tellers sorting through paperwork, looking frustrated, and turning to reading newspapers and books instead.
A demonstration by unemployed people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Buildings in an area. Men seated on the steps of a building. Some of the men sleeping on the floor inside the building. Children seated at a table eating food. They demand immediate action by the state to provide relief funds to the unemployed suffering from the Great Depression.
Supply of free water in drought-stricken city of Louisburg in Kansas during Great Depression. Tank cars carrying water in the area. A banner on a tank car reads: 'Free Water from Kansas City, Missouri to Louisburg, Kansas'. People gather to have water. A tank car at a rail road.
The Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) in Washington DC, United States. Men gather outside a building. Men standing near parked trucks. U.S. Capitol building in the background. Veterans registering. Veteran soldiers erect tents and electrical lines at Fort Hunt in Virginia.
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