Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A prominent French movie actor has spent 16 months in prison since police arrested him in a friend's house where drugs were found."

According to the most recent National Threat Assessment, the global financial crisis and its geopolitical implications pose the primary near-term security concern of the United States. Over the short run, both the EU and the United States are attempting to resolve the financial crisis while stimulating domestic demand to stem the economic downturn. These efforts have born little progress so far as the economic recession and the financial crisis have become reinforcing events, causing EU governments to forge policy responses to both crises. This report discusses this situation in detail and also discusses individual efforts by both the U.S. and EU to combat the effects of the crisis.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: USSR, Italy, Air war, Southwest Pacific, Burma. Map shows Allied advances during the week. Photographs: Cruiser U.S.S. Duluth shortly before being christened; Petty Officer Alex Holgate acknowledges a voice order during gunnery exercises; Bows-on view of a 10,000 ton Independence class carriers; Jungle training involving .30 caliber air-cooled machine guns; Italian refugees pass disabled American tanks; Italian battlescape near San Vitore; Allied Military Government officials question an Italian wheat farmer; Quartermaster Corps sort through a mountain of shoes and clothes to determine what will be reconditioned; Nazis from the Hermann Goering Division are led into custody by Pfc. Ira O. Creed, of Johnson City, Tenn. Back: [text and col. ill.]: German Army uniforms [field gray, tropical, mobile troops, mountain].

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Letter from John Todd Willis, Jr. to his parents Clara and John T. Willis, Sr. on September 24, 1944, apologizing for not writing recently. He explains that he hasn't been doing much, although he did go swimming with some other soldiers, and they saw a man spear some large fish. He expresses regret at not being home for dove season, and asks that his parents not send candy if they send him a Christmas box.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Letter from H.W. Tripp to Harris Leon Kempner discussing how shares had increased its value by a lot and then goes on talking about his plan to visit London, and Rome for a World Planning Conference of Xerox.

Letter from H.W. Tripp to Harris Leon Kempner discussing how shares had increased its value by a lot and then goes on talking about his plan to visit London, and Rome for a World Planning Conference of Xerox.

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Attu, Wake Island, Southwest Pacific, Russia, China-Burma, Air offensive. Large world map is keyed to text and shows United Nations Axis and Axis occupied areas, countries with Axis relations broken, and neutral countries. Additional maps: Mediterranean Sea; Areas held by Japan in the Kurile and Aleutian Islands. Inset map: Attu Island. Photographs: Mass production methods in the southwest Pacific mimic those of Detroit; Red Stars mark Soviet Air Force planes made in America; Nazis frisk Yugoslav peasants accused of guerilla activities Back: The not-so-soft underside [African victory].

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts. Maps display the Normandy front, the eastern front, and New Guinea. Back: "Saipan! within the inner defenses." Includes 9 photographs.

Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Eastern front; Italy; air war; Southeast Asia; Pacific. Maps: Communications centers hit in the Balkans; Crimea. Includes 7 photographs. Back: Smoke. Description of 4 ways to produce smoke for combat purposes. 1 illustration. 9 photographs.

Letter from I. H. Kempner discussing hotel reservations for D. W., Jeane, and Gladys Kempner in Rome.

Telegram sent by The Adoue family to Jeane Bertig Kempner extending congratulations and best wishes for her future, along with health and happiness, presumably for her birthday.

This report provides a brief overview of the European Union (EU), an economic and political partnership between 27 sovereign member states. The report describes the formation of the EU, the three main institutions of the EU, and the EU's relationship with the United States.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of killings in Rome and Athens has created confusion in five Arab terrorists. Skylab has organized surprise Christmas Eve Festivities. Vice President is vacating with his family at a Ski Resort in Colorado.

Telegram sent by I. H. Kempner to Mrs. D. W. Kempner wishing her a happy birthday.

Letter from Harris L. Kempner to Mr. and Mrs. Mattioli thanking them for the calendar they sent.

Letter from Jeane B. Kempner to Mrs. Angelika W. Frink enclosing an itinerary and discussing possible changes.