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Navy yd area project plans approved by State Housing Supt; City Planning Comm approves Bklyn FHA project, Bedford-Stuyvestant dist
Finns rept taking Pitkaeranta, completing trap northeast of Lake Ladoga
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Govt orders power consumption cut third; no relief from shortage expected until Spring rains permit hydroelec power use
1940Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (born 1888)[†]
Philip Francis Nowlan was an American science fiction writer, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.
1940Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (born 1877)[†]
Zacharias Papantoniou was a Greek writer. He was born in Karpenissi of Evrytania in February 1877 and died in Athens in 1940. He spent the first years of his life in Granitsa, where his father was a teacher. Apart from a writer, he was also a journalist. Papantoniou's work was basically the first to promote Evrytania. A big part of his work has not been published.