Film Identifier: F.2012-03-0185

Run Time
0h 8m 50s

Format
16mm

Color
B&W

Sound
Optical

Date Produced
1950

Abstract
Telenews Weekly presented by Telenews Productions, International News Service and International News Photos presents a news review of events spanning September 19 through October 8, 1950.

Description
Telenews Weekly reports upon heavy industry above the 38th parallel in North Korea; communist riots and strikes occur in Vienna, Austria; Margaret Truman visits Halloran Veterans Hospital in Staten Island, New York where she meets with patients including Marine Corporal and musician, Herb Frankhouser; models of new building construction which are featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art include Bellevue Hospital Center and Lever House; Miss Portugal Beauty Contest takes place; Philippine troops under United Nations command arrive in Busan, South Korea on September 19, 1950; Paul G. Hoffman, administrator of the Economic Cooperation Administration, attends the European Industrial Fair in Berlin; in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin declares there is no unemployment; Perle Mesta, U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, travels to New York; Cardinal Francis Spellman celebrates Mass at a U.S. Air Force base in England during his tour recognizing 100 years of Catholic restoration in the country; the Maccabiah Games occur in Tel Aviv, Israel from September 27 – October 8, 1950.

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