Profitable remodeling of business property in New York City, New York. The Vice President of an industrial savings bank seated at his table speaks about remodeling business property. He says that the industrial savings bank owned a six-story store and an office building. The six-story building. People moving about outside the building. A large store and a small store on the ground floor. The original picture layout of the ground floor with one large store and one small store, earning a rental of $5,800. The Vice President says that the large store was decided to be remodeled into four smaller stores and rented out. A new picture layout of the ground floor with four small stores in place of the large store, which will earn a rental of $11,500. The Vice President of the bank says that the remodeling cost is expected to be met in about three years and the bank would now have five stores instead of two stores.
Public Service Announcement (PSA) for Crusade for Freedom in New York. Ronald Reagan, famous Hollywood actor, talks about how Radio Free Europe has pierced the Iron Curtain (approaching people beyond reach in Communist countries). Reagan stands beside a poster advertising the campaign. Close-up view of the "World Freedom Bell" ringing atop Berlin City Hall or Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany) in West Berlin, Germany. View of the 135,000-watt radio transmitter and radio tower. Personnel in radio studio working on transmitter and radio station in West Germany. Views of various men speaking into microphone in radio studio. Dramatized view of people handing over letters of gratitude to Radio Free Europe, "smuggled past the secret police" under hats identifying Communist informers by name. View of a letter being cut into multiple pieces for safe transport in secret. U.S. Army General Lucius Clay steps to podium during unveiling ceremony for the bell unveiling ceremony on October 24, 1950. Animated map shows Radio Free Europe transmission tower and locations of planned future transmitter towers to penetrate the Iron Curtain (during Cold War). Another map is shown with a transmitter location east of China "to establish Radio Free Asia to stop the spread of Communism in the far east." Ronald Reagan appeals for help to keep Radio Free Europe operating. He holds up a large envelope with the New York City mailing address to send contributions for the radio campaign: "General Clay, Crusade for Freedom, Empire State Building, New York City."
Refugee children, displaced children, and war orphan boys and girls arrive in New York harbor, United States during World War II. The European refugee children aboard the passenger ship Serpa Pinto as they arrive in New York to begin a new life after fleeing war and persecution in Europe. Children, including many Jewish children, from much of war torn Europe, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Germany disembark from the ocean liner operated under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). A group of children poses for camera. Red Cross provides food and fresh milk to refugee children. The children eat the food.
Broadway and Union Square in Manhattan, New York City on 8 July 1903. Trolley cars filled with passengers. Trolley cars move on tracks. Passengers get off and, on the trolleys, or street cars. Broadway and 42nd Street viewed from the newly constructed Times Building (1 Times Square Manhattan, New York 10036). The newly constructed Astor Hotel (One Astor Plaza, New York, NY 10036, USA) visible below with flag flying over its roof.
Wendell L. Willkie, defeated 1940 Republican Presidential Candidate, leaves New York City, from Laguardia Seaplane Base on a Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 'Clipper' flying boat. Willkie and other passengers walk along a pier. Willkie waves his hat and boards a Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 'Clipper' flying boat. Members of crew on the pier. Boeing 314 taxis on waterways and takes off. Boeing 314 in flight. A Boeing 314 lands in Flushing Bay, New York City, and is pulled backwards to dock at the Laguardia Pan American Airways Seaplane Base. A gas tank of the New York Consolidated Edison Company is seen on the shore. Passengers deplane and walk on floating dock to terminal building.
Harlem River Houses in New York City, United States. An African American woman pulls a stroller along street. New residential apartment buildings in the background. Sign on new housing buildings reads 'Harlem River Houses' and name of President Franklin Roosevelt is also seen on sign. African American children playing in a fountain of the neighborhood apartment community.
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