Newsreel titled "Full steam ahead for big business as jobless get work" shows men working at ship building plants, shipyards, and construction sites in Quincy, Massachusetts. Expansion of activities by Pittsburgh steel mills has provided jobs to unemployed during the Great Depression. Smoke pours from stacks and chimneys looking over a steel mill in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy at his desk. Aero Commander 680 plane wreckage after crash near Southampton, Massachusetts. Policemen and police cars at the crash site, where Senator Kennedy had been pulled from the wreckage. Sign at entrance of hospital reads 'The Cooley Dickinson Hospital - Entrance'. Cars parked outside the hospital. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and others at the hospital. Robert Kennedy at a mike in a press conference. Cameramen record the event.
Fishermen's Memorial Monument in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. Ships anchored at the coast. Buildings along the coast line. Inscription on a stone reads 'They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships', 1623 –1923. Atop the monument is a sculpture of a Gloucester fisherman in foul weather gear with his hands on the wheel.
Boston harbor, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A commercial fishing trawler is seen departing Boston harbor headed out to sea. It is followed by a smaller fishing boat, also leaving the harbor.
Auctioning catches of fish at the Boston Fish Pier in Boston, Massachusetts. A man records names of boats and their catches on a blackboard. Men watch the board. Buyers call out their bids. An auctioneer handles the bidding. He declares the winning bids.
The Captain of a commercial fishing trawler reports his catch on radio to agents in Boston Massachusetts..He reports 80 thousand pounds of haddock; 25 thousand pounds of scrod; 22 thousand pounds of red fish; and 20 thousand pounds of live cod.