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Rough Synopsis of Greenbelt two-reel movie I. WASHINGTON - TRAVEL MECCA Washington is the mecca for thousands of travelers annually. From crossroads towns and distant cities the traveler consults time tables and excursion notices in expectation of a trip to the capital. For these thousands the Capital is a real mecca - a vacation spot where they can see majestic memorials, beautiful parks and public buildings now being completed in a great capital plan conceived by L'Infant, a Frenchman with a vision for city development. II. WASHINGTON AT WORK But there is another side to Washington - the Washington that works. The Federal government employes [[employs]], hundreds of thousands of workers ___ of whom are concentrated in ___ buildings in the Capital. They type, file, study, plan, experiment, and perform a hundred other tasks. At 4:30 o'clock downtown buildings disgorge these employes [[employees]] by the thousand. To street cars, buses and autos they file to hurry to their respective homes. These homes may be well furnished apartments for officials; houses for those who can afford them but for many the homes are cramped apartments or a room in a boarding house just one step above a tenement. III. WASHINGTON AT HOME With a housing shortage and rents high the magic word "home" not always bear the charm with which it is popularly supposed to be endowed. With rents high a large share of the little government worker's [[right margin]] Purpose- by a series of successive ideas to build up story of dismal living conditions, small salaried city workers as typifies in Wash., the need for housing, etc. 2 asp. of nat. cap. - Wash. impressive. 1 colonades, [[?]], marble pieces, domes. Pediments and formal gardens. Wash. [[? ? ?]] etc. so [[? ?]] Where tourists come to gasp & photograph. Qed, the Wash. clerks & typists, where ten thousand elevators, must be run, & daily millions of letters must be filed -Wash. dismal small crowded flats by [[? ?]] apts where for $40 mo. a man I urge may share a room having a [[?]] 2-burner stove, and an iron bed behind a curtain. [[/right margin]]
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2 asp. of nat. cap. - 2 aspects of national capital