Truman Urges Price Cuts (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1947)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. TRUMAN URGES PRICE CUTS: NEW YORK - Addressing members of the Associated Press, the President urges immediate slashing of prices and warns that only by such reductions can this nation avoid a recession. Reductions will bring more prosperity, he avers. 2. DISASTER AFTERMATH/LATEST PICTURES FROM TEXAS CITY: TEXAS CITY, TX - Smoke and flames still rise from burning oil tanks as the stricken city counts its dead and digs out. The official toll is over 400, with hundreds still missing. Grim evidence of the three-day battle against the flames is shown in these dramatic scenes. 3. EGG HITS NEW HIGH: NEW YORK - You won't believe it until you see it—eggs dropping down ten stories and bouncing off a rubber mat. They don't break (well, on the rebound maybe). You can even play ping-pong with eggs these days! 4A/B. KOREAN WINS MARATHON: BOSTON - Yun Bok Sun, young Korean University student, wins the Boston Marathon by two-thirds of a mile, eclipsing a large field of international runners and setting a new course record. / "LEAFS" WIN STYLE CUP: TORONTO - 15,000 rabid hockey fans jam the Maple Leaf Gardens for the finals in the Stanley Cup series and see the Toronto ice stars clinch the trophy by defeating the defending champs, the Canadians, by a score of 2-1. (LOCAL – MIAMI) NEW MIAMI THEATER OPENED. (LOCAL – CANADA) OVERSEAS AIRLINE STARTS.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library