$2,000,000 Ferry Blaze (Universal Newsreel, Jun 1946)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. MONSTER FLYING WING: INGLEWOOD, CA - A new chapter in aviation development is written, as the twenty-five-ton Northrop flying wing takes to the air. The tailless craft has a wing span of 172 feet and will weigh fifty tons fully loaded. 2. $2,000,000 FERRY BLAZE: NEW YORK - A spectacular nine-alarm fire that lasts more than 24 hours levels the ferry slip at Saint George, Staten Island. Three people died in the blaze and 35,000 commuters to Manhattan sought other means of getting to work. 3. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: John W. Snyder takes office as secretary of the treasury. He is sworn in by Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Benjamin Fairless, president of United States Steel, is awarded the Medal of Merit by Secretary of War Patterson, for his work as advisor to the Ordnance Department during the war. John R. Steelman, the president's labor advisor, is sworn in as Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion. 4. JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE: TOKYO - Breaking the tradition of centuries, thirteen-year-old Prince Akihito enters a boy’s school, to mix on even terms with commoners. Another step on democracy road for Japan. 5. MERRY-GO-ROUND MATRIMONY: PALISADES PARK, NJ - He met her on that carousel before he went off to kill a few Japs. So he came back, snatched the wedding ring where the brass ring used to be, and married her on the merry-go-round with the whole wedding party getting a ride. 6. FAMINE STALKS CHINA: Thirty thousand persons, trapped between the warring factions, face slow starvation. The twin specter—disease—carries off hundreds daily, as epidemics rage unchecked among people whose refuge is the roadside. (LOCAL – CANADA) 400,000 SEE PATRON. (LOCAL – CANADA) U.S. CRUISERS VISIT QUEBEC.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library