'Excavating for a New York Foundation '. A crew of laborers can be seen shoveling dirt into a four-wheeled wooden wagon. A full wagon is slowly lifted out of the pit to street level by a steam driven early design crane. Advertisements and campaign posters can be seen on the wall of the building in the background, including a large billboard for Cremo cigars. Location is West 29th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, looking east, in lower Midtown, Manhattan. Policeman talks with laborers at top of excavation, who are awaiting the filled wagon. They guide the wagon to an elevated landing on the perimeter above the excavation site.
Chrysler Turbine Special seen written on a new Chrysler test automobile with a lightweight efficient turbine motor. Several people gathered near the turbo automobile car. Buildings in the background. A woman puts her hand under the number plate for demonstration of low exhaust heat mechanism. The number plate reads 'AE 6967'. The car is driven to Los Angeles. The car inventor and designer, George Huebner, is seen with the turbo car in Los Angeles, and he is greeted by Hollywood stars Mara Cordey and Leigh Snowden.
A huge crane moves girders and door frames as it dismantles an old building in New York City, United States. Old buildings in the background. A steel frame being lowered as workmen guide it onto pile of rubble in adjacent lot.
Wall Street stock market activities at the New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor area swarming with brokers, clients and other officials. Currency exchanged at a counter in another area of the building. Officials work at counters. View of hands of two women telephone operators working in telephone switchboard area, handling calls and plugging in lines to connect callers. People enter and exit part of the exchange building.
U.S. troops prepare to entrain at the New York port of embarkation, heading for service in the European Theater during World War II. U.S. soldiers with full packs and barrack bags move. A railroad train in the background. The soldiers move on a train platform. They stand beside railroad train cars.
An ace glider ace breaks a record for flight in Manhattan area in New York. Wolf Hirth, German expert and partner of American soaring champion Hawley Bowlius in a glider. Vehicles move on a road in the foreground. The glider takes off. The pilot soars above Riverside and the unfinished Hudson Bridge for 50 minutes. People see the glider during the flight. The glider lands after getting orders by the police so that traffic could be released. People move towards the glider after the landing. The pilot comes out from the glider. Several officials talk to Wolf Hirth.
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