"It's Shells or Soldier's Lives" — Crawford (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1944)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. "IT'S SHELLS OR SOLDIER'S LIVES" — CRAWFORD: WALDORF-ASTORIA, N.Y.C. - (Exclusive) The War and Reconversion Congress of American Industry hears Mr. F.C. Crawford, their board chairman, deliver a dynamic address. Mr. Crawford, just returned from a trip to Gen. Eisenhower's theater of command, reveals that the war with Germany will last 1-3-6 months, or a year, depending on the sacrifice of 100,000 doughboy's lives—or the firing of thousands of tons of high caliber shells and the use of mountains of other materiel. 2. FLOOD AND MUD: Weather conditions facing the 5th Army in Italy are atrocious. Rivers flow through the streets and 6-wheeled trucks skid and slosh through muck and mire. 3. OCH, NAZIS WINNING??: Captured Nazi films show wrecked American equipment, and prison pounds containing American prisoners. 4. CHURCHILL AND STALIN: Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden terminate their conversations in Moscow with Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslaff Molotoff. 5. MACHINE COTTON PICKER: CLARKSDALE, MI - International Harvester Co. unveils its new marvel cotton picking machine which picks a bale $16.00 cheaper than human hands can do it. 6. 4-H CHAMPS: CHICAGO, IL - The two girls and the two boys who are judged the healthiest of lal 4-H'ers have engaging smiles and ravenous appetites. 7. GIANTS SCALP REDSKINS: WASHINGTON, D.C. - N.Y. Giants win Eastern Pro-football title, 31 to 0, as they catch most of their passes, and a few of Washington's as well. (LOCAL – CANADA) EGGS FOR BRITIAN. (LOCAL – CANADA) POTATOES GO TO WAR.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library