A huge ticker tape parade welcomes Earhart back to New York. Thousands of New Yorkers gather on streets and join the parade. Ticket tapes being showered on the parade. Earhart with New York Mayor Jimmy Walker. Holding flowers she christens a car.
Lighting on the buildings, shops and streets of Manhattan. Montage mixes Times Square lights with scenes of people dancing, enjoying music in clubs. Door man hails taxi for couple at night. A musician puts his trombone into its case. The lights turn out exterior of apartment building. A police man twirls his night stick as he "walks the beat" at night. Lighted 'Port Authority of New York' sign. Trucks come off of ferry at night in New York City. Workers from country towns load fruits and vegetables in a truck. Truck carries milk cans before dawn. A milk tanker pulls up to dairy at night. An Esso fuel tanker truck pumping gasoline into gas station tanks at night. Bread is loaded into a bread truck at night. Flowers removed from green house loaded into truck at night. Commodities of daily requirement like newspaper, bread, building material transported by trucks in midnight. New cars transported on a car carrier truck at night. Man shoveling sand from dump truck at night.
S.S.Queen Mary sets a new mark across Atlantic. British liner, S.S.Queen Mary moves across the Atlantic. S.S.Queen Mary ship reaches New York in a record time of four days, eight hours and thirty seven minutes, from Cherbourg water break, to the Ambrose Lightship. Biplane aircraft fly over the Queen Mary ocean liner as she nears the coast. The Statue of Liberty is also seen in harbor of New York City.
French fliers take off in Bleriot 110 aircraft from Floyd Bennett Field, New York. French aviators Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos at Floyd Bennett Airfield. In a hangar at the field, men seen around the Bleriot 110, powered by a Hispano Suiza engine. Aviators Rossi and Codos board the aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off from Floyd Bennett Field to set new non-stop air record, flying from New York to Rayak, Syria in about 55 hours, and establishing a distance record of 5,657.4 miles.
The Cabot device for snatching an airmail pouch without landing, is tested at Mitchel Field in New York, United States. Pilot Roger Wolfe Kahn at Mitchel Field, New York. Aircraft taxis and takes off. New Cabot device for postal air-mail tested. A huge container on the field with a sign on it that reads 'Cabot'. The aircraft trailing a line with hook, flies over a line stretched between two poles and snatches an air mail satchel.
NRA banner with Blue Eagle symbol, hoisted on building in New York City. A parade in New York City, United States. A large crowd marches on streets during a ten-hour parade hailing the NRA (National Recovery Administration), one of the New Deal programs of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the recovery of economy during the Great Depression. Men and women holding U.S. flags marching during the parade. Spectators watch the parade from sidewalks.
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