Discusses importance of American women as workers in the professional work force in the United States. View of Sloan Kettering institute. Female researcher works with white mice in boxes. She walks over to male researcher talks to him as he injects white mice. Nurses assists at an operation, teacher writes on blackboard, beautician or hairdresser does a girl's hair, girl climbs on farm tractor and drives off, young woman wearing industrial welder face mask works in a factory, girl models dress fashions at a beauty pageant. Air hostess, stewardess, or airline flight attendants line up for inspection. Mother bandages son's knee in bathroom. Girl and boyfriend cross wooden bridge over brook in woods, they stop and lean on railing. Waterfall in background.
Jack Dempsey, former boxing heavyweight champion, makes ice cream cones from a big ice cream cone, possibly the world's largest one, for orphan children of Protestant Home in Brooklyn. Children eat coned ice cream. Jack Dempsey and an orphan child eat coned ice cream.
A pier made of bales of natural rubber on fire in Staten Island, United States. Flames of fire rise. Firefighters arrive on site. Firemen hamper water pressure to blow fire. Cloud of smoke arises from pier. A ship splashes water over fire. A helicopter in flight. Aerial view of burning pier.
Newsreel clip showing baseball great Babe Ruth exercising indoors during the winter of 1932. Title card says he is demanding $80,000 contract -- he would receive a reported $75,000 instead. Ruth, wearing shorts and sweatshirt, climbs on stationary cycle and begins pedaling as a man rides another cycle beside him. Camera pans down to Ruth's well-known skinny legs. Ruth looks at clock on wall, wipes sweat from his face. Next, Ruth sits in 1930s-style sauna box and takes a sauna with a towel over his head. Other man playfully shoves his head while he is inside the box. Same man later seen wearing boxing gloves and throwing several punches at Ruth's stomach. Ruth takes a few, then delivers a left-handed punch to the head that pushes the much smaller man away.
A group of people standing underneath a tree and looking up. A cat is stuck in the branches of a tree. A young man climbs up the thorny branches to rescue t cat and brings it down. The cat was stuck for 120 hrs in isolation. People are happy to have their pictures clicked with the cat.
View of train that has just arrived carrying Ambassador to the United States for Germany, Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff . Count von Bernstorff waves from rear of railroad car.
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