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Policy Com of United Mine Workers authorizes miners to work at present wages pending negotiations; concede district sales statement by Lewis
Shanghai situation
Sapiro as witness begins story; mistrial denied defense; ruling admits certain paragraphs of Peteet's warning lr; Court rules out Sapiro's demand for retraction of which his counsel attempted to get copy into record; Dearborn Independent loss from start
Catches A Wiseman and accuses him as "hit-and-run" driver
1927Martin Fleischmann, British chemist (died 2012)[†]
Martin Fleischmann FRS was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry. The premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy water, caused a media sensation and elicited skepticism and criticism from many in the scientific community.
1927John McLaughlin, American journalist and producer (died 2016)[†]
John Joseph McLaughlin was an American television personality and political commentator. He created, produced, and hosted the political commentary series The McLaughlin Group. He also hosted and produced John McLaughlin's One on One, which ran from 1984 to 2013.
1927John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)[†]
Sir John Robert Vane was a British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments for heart and blood vessel disease and introduction of ACE inhibitors. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982 along with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances".
1927Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.[†]
The Sunbeam 1000 HP Mystery, or "The Slug", is a land speed record-breaking car built by the Sunbeam car company of Wolverhampton that was powered by two aircraft engines. It was the first car to travel at over 200 mph. The car's last run was a demonstration circuit at Brooklands, running at slow speed on only one engine. It is today on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.