Empire State Building under construction in New York City. Board reads "Empire State, ready for May 1931 occupancy, Renting office room 1202, 200 Madison Ave.", with photograph of the building. Steel erection starts with setting of steel billets and grillages after completion of concrete foundation to rock. View of finished base of building. Large grillages are carried from trucks by cranes and placed to rock. Workers handle it to be placed on proper place. Large billet on rock for main supporting column.
Students of Oregon State Agricultural College (later Oregon State University) pile up stacks of wood and debris scavenged from two 6-room houses to fuel a massive bonfire. Students climb up high on the pile of wood and pose for camera while they build the fire lay. Pile is set ablaze with a torch and is seen as the huge 72 foot bonfire burns. Different angles of bonfire shot at night.
Interior of state department building in U.S. A sign - department of state press room outside a room. Reporters sitting inside the room, two of them playing chess, two are typing. Reporters receive a report. September 1944.
Ohio State and Texas Christian University play a college football game at Ohio State Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Views of the game underway. The teams tie with 7 points each.
General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur, in uniform, salutes as a band plays the U.S. National Anthem. He is standing before a battery of microphones, on the steps of the State Legislature in Jackson, Mississippi, next to U.S. Senator, James O. Easland. Scene shifts forward to Senator Eastland delivering a speech of introduction for MacArthur (who had been relieved of his commands, 11 months earlier, by President Harry S. Truman). MacArthur places his notes on the podium and the crowd gives him sustained applause. MacArthur begins by thanking Eastland for the introduction, and addresses the members of the State legislature and citizens of Mississippi. He praises the traditions and contributions of the South to the Country. Film stops momentarily and picks up again as MacArthur says America stands at a crossroads, where one path follows to the principals and ideals upon which rested our country's past grandeur. He says on the other lies the arbitrary rule of men leading to the ultimate loss of constitutional liberty. View of crowd applauding. MacArthur criticizes weakness and vacillation as undermining America's moral leadership of the world. He criticizes U.S. Government domestic spending and reckless dissipation of America's national assets. Intermittent views of crowd receptive to his remarks. He remarks about U.S. Government "propaganda," and quotes Benjamin Franklin, saying "A half truth is often a great lie."
A New York State Police officer questions a woman holding puppies in her hand, in Babylon, Long Island, New York. Armed State Police along with Babylon town police and Sheriff's deputies are on a manhunt. They search in a forest and a house as well. An officer sends a message by radio. Officers make inquiries among residents of the area. Several times officers are seen holding mug shots of the escaped criminal. Police employ a hound in the search. View of the hound looking out the window of a car.
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