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Legis shelves wiretapping bill
TWU set for strike on BMT and IRT lines over Transportation Bd's refusal to assume union's contracts with cos; ct posts injunction notice to IRT employes; police plans; LaGuardia conf with Quill scheduled
Germans shoot down 7 French planes in battles near Puettlingen, Sarreguemines and Merchingen; Apr activity expected to be like Mar; Allied emphasis still on preparation; map
NYC and met area; warm; beaches crowded; rain and wind cause minor plane wreck, Floyd Bennett Field
U S exports to Scandinavia discussed in connection with Brit plan to broaden blockade
1940Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)[ā ]
Wangarĩ Maathai was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on planting trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 2004 she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.