Zinc miner puts dynamite stick in his pocket. Shift boss catches him doing that and gives him a cloth-sack to carry the dynamite stick.
Shift boss discovers a box containing dynamite and detonators lying on the ground. Boss instructs mine worker to place the box well separated to avoid accident. Worker quarantines the box to a safer place.
Zinc miners arrive in man-car at top-landing shaft station of zinc mine in Franklin,NJ. Miner exit the car and take their work checks from the department check-board.
U.S. paratroopers practice in a field in Lakehurst. Paratroopers are lined up and an officer talks to them. They board a plane. The plane takes off. The plane in flight and aerial view of the area. The paratroopers jump from the plane and descend towards the land with parachutes.
Howard Hughes climbs out of the cockpit of his H-1 Racer, a custom built low wing monoplane, license number NR258Y, after completing his record breaking transcontinental flight from California. He allows another man to sit in the cockpit as Hughes talks to him. Ground crew pushes the airplane into the hangar.
Crowd gathered outside offices of the Zeppelin Transport Company at a building in Lakehurst Naval Air Station, upon arrival of the German zeppelin dirigible, Hindenburg (LZ-129) following its flight from Germany. A commercial bus is parked ready to transport passengers from the Hindenburg. A photographer sits on the bus roof. Crowd listens to Dr. Hugo Eckener, of the Zeppelin Company, who just arrived on the Hindenburg. After speaking, Dr. Eckener struggles through the crowd to enter the office. Sign overhead reads, among other things, 'German Zeppelin Transport Co' and 'American Airlines Inc'. Arriving passengers leave the office and make their way, through the throng, to the bus. Several speak to reporters on their way. The name: "Pulion and Shirla Bus Company, Inc." is painted on the siide of bus, as well as lists of places it stops, including:Lakewood, Point Pleasant, and Madison Square Garden.
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