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Bust presented to Sen
Dewey message to Legis
LaGuardia assails criticisms of post-war pub works program
US WPB chmn Krug rept on total US production, '44; notes Dec output, 98% of schedule, was below mil needs; cites types meeting schedules and below schedules; notes only 73% of navy Corsairs were accepted
Vice Pres Wallace states preference for Sec apptmt in lr to Roosevelt
1945Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish actor, musician and comedian (died 2022)[†]
Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004.
1945Richard R. Schrock, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Richard Royce Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the olefin metathesis reaction used in organic chemistry.