Scene at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Port Newark, New Jersey, as the U.S. Destroyer Escort USS McConnell is launched. Shipyard workers aboard the deck and handling lines. U.S. Naval Ensign displayed at her bow and crew looking down. Mrs. Grace Otteson McConnell swings the bottle of champagne and the USS McConnell slides down the ways after christening. View from deck of the McConnell as she goes down the ways. View from water, as she enters, stern-first. Change of scene to high vantage point overlooking the shipyard, at change of shift, when those ending leave and those arriving enter the yard to start work. Workers leaving through guarded gate. Incoming workers punching in on the time clock.
View from a height, of a Petroleum facility construction project underway. A crawler-Mounted Latticework Boom Crane on the site. Steel framing erected in places and pre-fabricated tanks of various sizes and configurations on the site. Workers digging with shovels in a waist-deep earthen hole. welders at work on large size piping. A man turning a large valve control. Workers moving through a labyrinth of pipes and valves. Tall fractionating columns.
Teenage boys and girls at a juke joint in an American city. Teenage kids dance on dance floor beside a juke box, and drink soda. Sign on wall says "Absolutely no liquor permitted." Teenagers sit at table. A teenage boy pulls a glass flask of liquor from his pocket and pours it into the drink of the girl sitting beside him. Man joins the party briefly. Boy at the table smokes a cigarette and talks with girl and with another boy at the table. He pours liquor into the other boy's drink also.
Three teenage boys gather outside a building. They take out marijuana joint cigarettes from box and start smoking.
Justice of the children's Court Stephen S. Jackson gives lecture before a Parent Teacher Association meeting. He says that best place to give guidance and caring to children is at home. He discusses the challenges for youth living during World War 2. He implores parents to make the home a strong foundation for children. Parents listen to speech and clap. Sign of 'Children's Division - Domestic Relations Court'.
Men adjust diver's equipment. Divers hauled over side of barge. Divers submerge to work on ship SS Normandie following its fire and capsizing at New York City port.
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