September 2, 1965.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Universal Newsreels ; Release 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

The Sixties (1960-1974).

Airplanes.

Military engineering.

Local Subjects:

The Sixties (1960-1974).

Airplanes.

Military engineering.

Genre:

Newsreel

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Neighborhood:Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Universal Pictures Company, 1965.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

SCORES BURIED BY SWISS AVALANCHE: One of the most horrible disasters in Swiss history takes an estimated 90 lives. A thousand men were at work on a hydroelectric project at Saas-Fee near the Italian border when a section of the Allalin Glacier broke off, sending millions of tons of ice and rock hurtling down the mountainside crushing to death 90 lives. Severe weather - snowstorms - hampered the search for bodies. INSTANT AIRSTRIPS: A well-placed bomb can put an airstrip out of operation for many days. Now the Air Force has developed a method of getting a runway back in business in a matter of hours. Bulldozers fill in the crater and an aluminum sheath makes the strip as good as new. NEW COINAGE RUSHED: The San Francisco Mint - closed for ten years - has been reactivated, as the nation faces a mounting coin shortage. New coinage will have a muted tinkle since the silver shortage necessarily shrinks the amount in coins. So to "coin" a phrase: "Hi, Ho, Silver"...away!! SPORTS PINT-SIZE BASEBALL PROS: There are 20,000 Little League fans on hand at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the World Championship for small fry. A team from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, outscores a team from across the border - Canada - to take the biggest crown in younger-set competition.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).

OCLC:

859525051