Secretary of States James Kellogg, Secretary of Navy Curtis D Wilbur and General John J Pershing wait for the arrival of Trans Pacific fliers Lieutenant Lester Maitland and Lieutenant Albert F Hegenberger on July 21, 1927. People gathered in large number at Bolling field in Washington DC, United States. Aircraft land, Maitland and Hegenberger get off the aircraft. General Patrick and General Fechet become the first ones to greet the fliers. General Patrick, Anthony Fokker, C L Lawrence, Eddie Rickenbacker and Charles Lindbergh also greet the pilots. Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger receive the citations for distinguished flying.
Colonel Lindbergh takes off from Washington DC, United states to Mexico City on December 13, 1927. Men push Spirit of St Louis, a monoplane, pushed out of a hangar by a group of men at Bolling airfield in Washington DC, United States. A man makes final check up of the aircraft. Major Harvey Burwell, Commanding Office of the Bolling Air Field greets Charles Lindbergh before he takes off. Lindbergh gets into the plane and men push the plane. Aircraft takes off.
President and Mrs.Calvin Coolidge standing at their box in Griffith Stadium to watch a baseball game between the Washington Senators and the Boston Red Sox, on April 12, 1927. The President takes off his overcoat and sits, after which everyone also sits down. The President stands to greet Senators manager, Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris, who shakes hands with the President and with the First Lady as she extends her hand. Harris gives a baseball to the President who pepares to throw the ceremonial "first pitch." Bucky Harris points to where the President should throw. Someone else steps forward and tells the President to throw in a different direction. He looks puzzled. Bucky Harris again reafirms the correct direction. Change of scene: President and Mrs. Coolidge standing with everyone else for the playing of the National Anthem.
Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is welcomed with parade at end of three month tour in his airplane 'Spirit of Saint Louis', in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Men wave flags. Large crowd. Charles Lindbergh arrives at speaker's stand. His last tour stop is Mitchel Field, New York (he embarked on that flight leg on October 23, 1927).
Aviator Charles Lindbergh returns after his nonstop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris that completed on May 21, 1927. A fleet of ships and boats escort Lindbergh up the Hudson to the New York Harbor. Among the informal fleet is a tug boat named the "Federal No. 2", which displays a maritime flag on its bow, containing 48 stars and no stripes. A crowd gathered at the harbor to watch the festivities and honor Lindbergh. Tug boats line the harbor. Lindbergh watches a marine parade in his honor. New York Mayor James J. Walker beside Lindbergh.
'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.
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