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US Cong leaders to conf on situation; US expected to ask Brit troops retention if aid is approved; Cong anxiety noted; Sen Eaton calls situation most fateful in US history
Army and Navy differences on Canal improvement plans discussed; House subcom plans inspection; Repr Bradley comments on Repr Bradley views; Du Val Plan noted; study by Gov Mehaffey and consultants gets under way
operators may discuss next move
badly damaged by fire, North River, pier 90, NYC; 3 overcome; short circuit believed cause; Comr Quayle comments; inquiry; illus
accepts 2 of USSR amendments to US trusteeship proposals for former Jap-mandated Pacific islands
1947Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (died 2011)[†]
Michael Stern Hart was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. He published e-books via ARPANET years before the Internet existed, and later on BBS networks and Gopher servers.