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Judging by the growing demand for American apparel and textiles in Mexican stores featuring such articles, Mexico should constitute a market for American manufacturers worthy of special promotion ...
THE NEW YORK TIMES Weekly Index of Business Activity declined to 124.6 from 125.9 in the preceding week. Steel and paperboard dropped, with other components registering increases.
Sam and Jack Match, builders, have purchased a large tract of land on Avenue X between Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, where they plan to erect 200 two-family homes for veterans. The first unit of twentyfive homes, now under construction, is expected to be ready for occupancy in about three months.
Interests plan Westchester homes development
Purchase of a large midtown office and showroom building by a realty operator and acquisition of a corner building on lower Broadway for expansion purposes marked Manhattan property trading as another week of broad market activity ended.
1946Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (died 2013)[†]
James Milton Kelly was an American athlete, martial artist and actor. After winning several karate championships, he rose to fame in the early 1970s appearing in action films within the martial arts and blaxploitation genres. Kelly played opposite Bruce Lee in 1973's Enter the Dragon, and had lead roles in 1974's Black Belt Jones as the title character and Three the Hard Way as Mister Keyes.
1946The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.[†]
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during World War II. The IMTFE was modeled after the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, Germany, which prosecuted the leaders of Nazi Germany for their war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity.