Howard Hughes sets a new record and arrives at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Aircraft taxis and stops. Views of engine and parts of the aircraft. Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. , American aviator in cockpit . He sets a new record by flying from Miami to New York in 4 hours and 21 minutes. He gets off from the cockpit and poses.
Parking lot of a hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. A limousine pulls up on its circular drive and a passenger steps into the car. A fashionably dressed woman walks her dog on grounds of the hotel, pausing near a palm tree. Two men chat in background and the ocean is seen behind them. Two women are seen window shopping at Peck & Peck store and two others at another window of the same store. Pedestrians walk past the window shoppers. Scene shifts to the open air yard of a shop selling pottery, where a woman is conversing with the shopkeeper. Next, a uniformed chauffeur picks a purchase made by the woman and carries it for her as they leave the shop. Shoppers are seen in an alcove near another store. The scene shifts to a restaurant patio where patrons are seated in a shady setting. (Note: The shopping scenes were filmed along Worth Avenue in its various alcoves.)
Labor strikers crowd around the entrances to a manufacturing plant as National Guardsmen herd strike-breakers (aka "scabs") into the shop New Albany. Women work at sewing machines in the factory. National Guard troops guard the shirt factory. Cars parked in the street. Ambulances carry-off the injured after a clash at another manufacturing plant in Jeffersonville.
President-elect Dwight D Eisenhower, his brother and Mayor Dewey help launch The Heart Fund in New York. Dignitaries and guests seated at the venue. President Eisenhower's brother with the chairman of the Drive Mrs. Preston Davie. Governer of NY Thomas Edmund Dewey also seated on stage. President Eisenhower arrives for the function. Speeches by Mrs. Davie and Eisenhower's brother. A standing ovation by the guests. Certificates distributed.
A barrel jumping contest in New York. A skater on ice skates takes a start for an attempts to hurdle ten barrels. Ten barrels placed on the snow. He takes a long jump and lands on the last barrel. Spectators watch the contest. Referees move forward to measure the jump distance. Photographers click pictures.
Australian tennis player Frank Arthur Sedgman makes his pro debut against American John Albert Kramer also known as Jack Kramer. Sedgman and Kramer walk onto the tennis court. Spectators applaud. The match begins. The match underway. Spectators watch the match. Kramer defeats Sedgman 6-1, 6-2. The two players shake hands at the net.
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