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Pres Truman comment
plans; world strike policy discussed; US delegates noted; speculations on Sir W Citrine successor
American Federation of Labor maritime workers joined their fellow seamen of the Congress of Industrial Organizations yesterday in laying plans for a maritime strike.
decision on Sec Gen role discussed
Discusses his serum, ACS; por
1946Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (died 1979)[†]
Zbigniew Seifert was a Polish jazz violinist.
1946The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.[†]
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public-service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting.