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"DEWEY WINS!". "NEW YORK GOVERNOR NOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS". VARIOUS SCENES THOUSANDS OF DELEGATES AT 24TH REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA. JUNE 25, 1948.

ELDER STATESMAN AND FORMER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER IS WILDLY CHEERED AS HE APPEARS AT PODIUM WITH MARTIN. HOOVER MAKES SPEECH. DELEGATES CHEER, THROW CONFETTI IN AIR.

SENATOR MARTIN FROM PENNSYLVANIA SPEAKS AT PODIUM.
MARTIN NOMINATES THOMAS E. DEWEY AS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. CROWD HOLDS UP PLACARDS WITH DEWEY'S PICTURE ON THEM. OTHERS WAVE SIGNS WITH NAMES OF STATES THEY REPRESENT.

REPRESENTATIVE WALTER JUDD DRAMATICALLY NOMINATES HAROLD E. STASSEN FOR PRESIDENT. "STASSEN"
PLACARDS

CALIFORNIA DELEGATES RE-CONVENE, GO INTO HUDDLE, CHANGE tHEIR VOTE FOR DEWEY. SENATOR BRICKER ANNOUNCES TAFT'S WITHDRAWAL. SENATOR KNOWLAND OF CALIFORNIA READS GOVERNOR WARREN'S DECISION TO BACK DEWEY.

THOMAS E. DEWEY APPEARS WITH WIFE, IS GREETED BY WILD OVATION. HE SPEAKS, ACCEPTS NOMINATION AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR SECOND TIME. MAKES SPEECH.

"NORMANDIE" JOINS U. S. NAVY"
VARIOUS SCENES FRENCH QUEEN OF THE SEA, "NORMANDIE"
IS PAINTED, RE-FITTED, AND RE-NAMED, S.S. LAFAYETTE", BEFORE DISASTROUS FIRE AT ITS BERTH IN NEW YORK CITY PIER ON 2/9/42.

LETTERS FROM NAME "NORMANDIE" ARE REMOVED FROM HULL AND REPLACED WITH "LAFAYETTE" LETTERS.

HEAVY SMOKE INUNDATES LINER NORMANDIE OBSCURING THE NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE IN BKGD. *(REMINDER OF 9/11/2001 NEW YORK TRADE CENTER DISASTER SCENE).

AERIAL VIEW OF LINER SMOKING HEAVILY AND BEGINNING TO LIST ALONGSIDE PIER. AS SEEN FROM PLANE AS IT CIRCLES SCENE.

MAYOR LAGUARDIA, NAVAL OFFICER, ALL BUNDLED UP FOR THE COLD WEATHER, WATCH HELPLESSLY.

PAN MORE SCENES OF HUGE SHIP WITH FIRE, SMOKE BELLOWING FROM ITS DECKS. TUG BOATS ALONGSIDE TO KEEP IT FROM CAPSIZING IN DIRECTION OF LIST, WHICH IS CAUSED BY THE HUGE MASS OF WATER POURED ON IT TO QUENCH THE FLAMES.

BOW SHOT OF NORMANDIE SHOWS HOW BADLY IT BEGINS TO LIST. GREAT SHOT.

AERIAL VIEWS OF MAGNIFICENT LUXURY FRENCH LINER "NORMANDIE" ARRIVING IN NEW YORK HARBOR ON MAIDEN VOYAGE. HUGE CROWD ON PIER IN FRGD WATCH THE HUGE LINER BEING TOWED TO PIER.

FIREBOATS STILL POUR WATER ON CAPSIZED HULK. NAVY BELIEVES THEY CAN UPRIGHT AND FLOAT THE SHIP AGAIN.
IT WILL BE THE GREATEST SALVAGE JOB EVER ACCOMPLISHED.

BULLDOZER PUSHES HUGE ROOTS TO CLEAR ROAD. HIGH ANGLE OF HEAVY-DUTY EARTH MOVERS, TRACTORS CLEARING PATH.

"ICELAND"
VARIOUS SCENES AMERICAN GIS FACE SCENES GALE FORCE WINDS ON OUTPOST IN ICELAND. QUANTSET HUT BARRACKS ARE RIPPED APART, MEN SLIP, SLIDE AND FIND IT HARD TO WALK AGAINST THE WIND. EXTREME WEATHER.

"AMERICA'S BATTLE OF PRODUCTION"
"NEW ARMY PONTOON BRIDGE. SOLDIERS FROM FORT BENNING, GEORGIA DEMONSTRATE HOW PONTOON BRIDGE IS BUILT ACROSS RIVER. BRIDGE BUILDING; ENGINEERING

"BOMBS FOR U. S. PLANES"
SKILLFUL WORKERS APPLY THE LATEST TECHNIQUES FOR BUILDING BOMBS AT PLANT. VARIOUS SCENES OF BOMBS BEING ASSEMBLED, EXAMINED ON ASSEMBLY LINE.

"BIG FLOOD IN HAVANA CAUSES HEAVY DAMAGE"
VARIOUS SCENES HEAVY FLOODING IN STREETS OF HAVANA, CUBA RESULTING FROM DELUGE OF RAUN. AUTOS AND BUSES HALF INUNDATED IN WATER. PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG, UP TO THEIR CHESTS IN WATER MAKING THE BEST IT BY TREATING IT LIKE GIANT SWIMMING POOL. FLOODS;
NATURAL DISASTER; EXTREME WEATHER.

YOUNG PEOPLE FROLIC IN THE WATER. MOUNTED POLICEMAN HOLDS LITTLE BOY IN ARM, AS HORSE RIDES THEM THROUGH NECK HIGH WATER.

"SURVIVORS OF SHIP SUNK BY U-BOAT REACH NEW YORK"
VARIOUS SCENES CREW OF TANKER "NORNEZ" SANK OFF LONG ISLAND BY NAZI U-BOAT POSE, ONE GIVES VICTORY SIGN WITH FINGERS. CU CAPTAIN HAROLD HANSEN POSES.

PAN SURVIVORS OF TANKER TORPEDOED OFF PACIFIC COAST POSE FOR GROUP SHOT. THEY WERE BLASTED BY SHELL FIRE FROM JAPANESE SUBMARINE, THEN TORPEDOED.

"AMERICA HONORS PRESIDENT ON 60TH BIRTHDAY"
CU GUEST OF HONOR AT WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESIDENT FDR 60TH BIRTHDAY, IS FOUR YEAR-OLD GARY KING, WHO WALKS UP WHITE HOUSE STEPS IN CRUTCHES, TOWARDS CAMERA, AFTER LEAVING CAB IN BKGD.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT CUTS BIRTHDAY CAKE, GIVES FIRST PIECE TO ACTRESS BETTY GRABLE AS OTHERS, INCLUDING DOROTHY LAMOUR, ROSALIND RUSSELL, PAT O'BRIEN, JOHN PAINE. MANY UNIDENTIFIED OTHERS, LOOK ON. LARGE CROWD IN ATTENDANCE APPLAUD.

ABOVE SHOT OF LARGE CROWD OF GUESTS DANCING AT "DIAMOND JUBILEE" BALL AT THE WALDORF IN NEW YORK.
BALLOONS COME RAINING DOWN FROM CEILING.