Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 13]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [SEPT. 13]

1950

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Part 1, the French liner Liberte is greeted in New York City's harbor on her maiden voyage. Flashbacks show the ship as a troop transport prior to her conversion. Part 2, shows Israeli fashions. Part 3, Sec. of Defense Johnson, Gen. Bradley, and G. N. Craig, Commander of the American Legion, speak before the Senate Armed Services Committee supporting University Military Training. Part 4, shows railroad yards and terminals in Canada idle because of a strike. Part 5, 27th Infantry Regiment patrols probe North Korean lines near Taegu, Korea. A survivor of a massacre by the North Koreans identifies one of its promoters. Part 6, shows English Channel swimmers.

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Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981

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Johnson, Louis Arthur, 1891-1966

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