Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [DEC. 11]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [DEC. 11]

1946

Part 1, Pres. Miguel Aleman is inaugurated in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts, and then reviews a parade. Girls dance the oaxaco. Gen. Wainwright looks on. Part 2, Adm. Richard Byrd discusses his sixth Antarctic expedition. Shows "Little America" during his first visit. Part 3, U.M.W. leader John L. Lewis leaves Municipal Court, Wash., D.C., after being fined for contempt. Shows Sec. of the Interior Krug; strike-idled coal mines; and ships, trains, and schools halted or closed by the strike. Part 4, union members picket the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee, Wis.; riots erupt. Shows street scenes in Oakland, Calif., immobilized by a general strike.

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