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Brit Govt studies loan to China; funds available under recent loan
German products at Leipzig Fair described
Reich drafts Jews for work; aim is to release Germans for State-pol jobs; denies 100-a-day emigration order
Gandhi denies charge of breaking faith with Thakore Saheb; orders wife to return to prison; Viceroy to return from Udaipur to Delhi
WASHINGTON, March 5.--Business men who have been obtaining information which the Department of Commerce, through the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, spends about $3,000,000 a...
1939Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri (died 2025)[โ ]
Christopher Samuel Bond was an American attorney and politician from Missouri. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from 1987 to 2011, following two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Missouri from 1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1985, and two years as State Auditor of Missouri from 1971 to 1973. His first election as governor ended a 28-year Democratic streak in that office.
1939Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (died 2003)[โ ]
Adam Osborne was a British author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.
1939Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician and academic (born 1852)[โ ]
Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that ฯ (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any nonzero polynomial with rational coefficients.