Aviator Charles Lindbergh welcomed in New York. He reviews troops marching by in his honor at Central Park Mall. Lindbergh with his mother Evangeline Lindbergh on the podium. NY Governor Al Smith presents Lindbergh the State's Medal of Valor as his mother looks on. Policemen control the large crowd. People wait for him in Central Park. A decorated float with a model of Lindbergh's plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. Governor Smith with Lindbergh and his mother on stage. Lindbergh addresses the gathering and stands amidst two officers.
U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull talks about Pan American Conference. Secretary Hull during a press conference aboard USS Santa Clara. He talks about the Pan American Conference in Peru. An American delegate addresses the conference. Cordell Hull poses on the ship.
Aerials of New York City and Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). A traffic jam in Manhattan. Men and women near the building. Firemen inside the building examining the areas caught on fire. Nine different floors from the 24th to 68th are caught on fire. Exteriors of building.
'Flood area digs out of debris as waters recede '. Mud and debris dug out and water gushes away after floods in New York State. In the aftermath of floods wrecked house, furniture on the street and a damaged jeep. People distributed water. Doctors inject people to prevent spread of an epidemic. Children eat a meal.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) building projects during the New Deal effort of the Great Depression: Palisades Interstate Park along the Hudson River in Fort Lee, New Jersey. A group of teenage boys hiking in the park. Groups gathered at a picnic area. Boys and girls playing outside of a new bath house building beside the park beach. View of the Perkins Memorial Tower built in honor of the former chairman of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, and a wide view of the Palisades Interstate Park Administration Building still under construction. Scene changes to Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale New York, as 1930's cars drive in front of a newly built club house to discharge passengers. A uniformed door man stands by. Women golfers and men golfers play on the new 18 hole golf course in the park which requires no membership.
Film opens showing a U.S. Air Transport Command C-54 aircraft taxiing in to park at the Washington National airport, Washington, DC. Next, U.S. Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, leaves the aircraft and descends steps, followed by a Congressional delegation, including Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. The airport ramp is crowded with Army Air Forces personnel, photographers, and news reporters. Other Air Forces members watch from in front of the Army Air Forces Transport Command Terminal in the background. Closeup of Byrnes greeting several men in the crowd. Part of the sequence repeats again.
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