Twenty firemen and three policemen injured by fire and explosion in a tire and battery shop. Firemen blown through a wall in the blast. Policemen and firemen gather outside the ruined shop. Injured men helped into an ambulance. Ambulance pulls away.
Skiers arrive, one of them with Australian flag. Skiers jump from the hill. John Risnes of Norway walks away with top honors, with a leap of 195 feet at the North Ski Club's mid-winter jump. Men with surfboards surf in the sea.
Former President Truman speaks before Reserve Officers Association in Philadelphia. Sign before bank of microphones reads 'Reserves Ask Only The Right To Be Ready'. Truman warns against serious cuts in defense appropriations during the tense world situation. Crowd applauds.
President Eisenhower signs a bill that sends million tons of surplus wheat to famine stricken Pakistan. Sign reads 'Wheat for Pakistan from the US'. Grains poured out into containers aboard a ship at Baltimore. Church organization men and 4-H clubs collect dried milk for needy children of the world. Women and children drink milk.
'Fashions on the Campus' shows two young women and a young men seated on a wall at the Avon Old Farms school in Avon, Connecticut. A young woman wears a "hoodwinker" with tassle on hood matching tassles at neckline. Two women with hoods in a room of the Avon Old Farms school. A woman wears a tweed dress, having coffee with a young man. She unbuttons her jacket and shows the man. Women pose in tweed outfits.
Joyland Amusement park at Wichita. School children get on a toy train which leads to the school. Train crosses a bridge. Children enter the school.
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