Two Men Are Killed in Crash Of Motorboats on Lake Placid
By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Motorboats crash, Lake Placid, NY; M C Gaines and S W Irwin killed; 1 injured
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August 21, 1947
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640.7 Miles an Hour, World Mark, Is Set by Navy Flier in a Jet Plane; NAVY JET PLANE SETS WORLD MARK
By the Associated Press
SPEED, JET PLANES: US Navy D-558 Douglas Skystreak breaks world record at 640.7 mph, Muroc, Calif; hits 653.4 mph; pilot Comdr Caldwell comments; plane described
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Compromise ITO Charter Drafted at Geneva Parley; COMPROMISE PACT FOR ITO DRAFTED
By Michael L. Hoffmanspecial To the New York Times
conf completes draft; sets date for official release; plans closing plenary sessions
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AID LATER PLEDGED; Secretary Says Present Talks in Brazil Must Center on Defense WARNS OF DICTATORSHIP Asserts Western Hemisphere Must Display Solidarity Against All Aggressors MARSHALL PLACES EUROPE AID FIRST
By C. P. Trussellspecial To the New York Times
Marshall speaks; says conf must center on defense not econ; pledges later econ aid; warns of dictatorship
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Notable Births
1947Carl Giammarese, American singer-songwriter and musician[†]
The Buckinghams are an American pop band from Chicago. They formed in 1966 and went on to become one of the top-selling acts of 1967, charting their only five top 40 hits in the U.S. that year. The band dissolved in 1970, but re-formed in 1980 and as of 2022 they continue to tour throughout the United States.
Notable Deaths
1947Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (born 1881)[†]
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was a Franco-Italian automobile designer and manufacturer. He received French citizenship in 1946 and is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti, which he founded in 1909 in the then German town of Molsheim in the Alsace region of what is now France. Bugatti died in Paris and is buried in Dorlisheim, France.